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A New York Times Bestseller Looking at the lurid side of organized crime from the 1800's to Prohibition, this is a tour through a now unrecognizable city of abysmal poverty and habitual violence. Asbury presents the definitive work on this subject, an illumination of the gangs of old New York that ultimately gave rise to the modern Mafia.Asbury, Herbert is the author of 'Gangs of New York An Informal History of the New York Underworld' with ISBN 9780880294294 and ISBN 0880294299.
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