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Five Points: The 19th-Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum
Five Points The 19thCentury New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance Stole Elections and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum
Author: Tyler Anbinder
Review — Though long ago bulldozed away and remade, the rough-and-tumble lower Manhattan district called Five Points was once considered to be so representative of New York that foreign journalists traveled there to gather horrifying stories for their readers. Wrote a Swedish reporter, "lower than to the Five Points it is not possible for human n...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780965251037
ISBN-10: 0965251039
Pages: 519
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Publisher: The Free Press
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This book was every bit as good as I anticipated and really captures the period.
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