The Gangs of New York is a tour through a now unrecognisable city of abysmal poverty and habitual violence cobbled from legend, memory, police records, the self-aggrandizements of aging crooks, popular journalism, and solid historical research. Zobraziť viac
This classic history of crime tells how the Chicago underworld earned - and kept - its notorious reputation, from the time it was settled to the Prohibition days of the 1920s. Recounting the lives of such infamous early inhabitants as the original... Zobraziť viac
Home to the notorious `Blue Book`, which listed the names and addresses of every prostitute living in the city, New Orleans`s infamous red-light district gained a reputation as one of the most raucous in the world. But the New Orleans underworld... Zobraziť viac
