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Five Points: The Nineteenth-Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections and Became the Worlds Most Notorious Slum
Five Points The NineteenthCentury New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance Stole Elections and Became the Worlds Most Notorious Slum
Author: Tyler Anbinder
The very letters of the two words seem, as they are written, to redden with the blood-stains of unavenged crime. There is Murder in every syllable, and Want, Misery and Pestilence take startling form and crowd upon the imagination as the pen traces the words." So wrote a reporter about Five Points, the most infamous neighborhood in nineteenth-ce...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780684859958
ISBN-10: 0684859955
Publication Date: 9/4/2001
Pages: 532
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Publisher: Free Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 2
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