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All Around the Town: The Sequel to the Gangs of New York
All Around the Town The Sequel to the Gangs of New York Author:Herbert Asbury The author of the New York Times best-seller The Gangs of New York returns with a second volume of tales from Gothams underworld. In this wonderfully colorful and surprising history, Herbert Asbury expands his purview beyond the Five Corners to the entire city of New York. From Lord Cornbury, a loonily corrupt, cross-dressing British gover... more »nor of colonial days, to the Broadway pickpocket who built herself a mansion in Hoboken, where she set herself up as European royalty, to prohibitionist Carry Nations first visit to a scornful city of saloons (and her memorable confrontation with the drunken John L. Sullivan), When New York Was Really Wicked brings to vivid life a memorable range of characters, grifters, murderers, and madmen. Rediscovering a fascinating array of lost corners in the history of the city, Asbury shows that todays tabloid headlines have nothing on the daily goings-on 150 years ago. From "The Sawing-Off of Manhattan Island" to "The Wickedest Man in New York" to "The Flour Riot of 1837," these twenty-three lively and accessible accounts make for top-notch, eccentric popular history as told by a master.« less