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The Gangs Of New Orleans: An Informal History of the French Quarter Underworld - Softcover

Asbury, Herbert

 
9780099455080: The Gangs Of New Orleans: An Informal History of the French Quarter Underworld
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0099455080 ISBN 13: 9780099455080
Verlag: Arrow, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

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 consisted of much more than the local bordellos. It was also well known as the early gambling capital of the United States, and sported one of the most violent records of street crime in the country. In The Gangs of New Orleans, Herbert Asbury, author of The Gangs of New York, chronicles the immense underbelly of 'The Big Easy'. From the murderous exploits of Mary Jane 'Bricktop' Jackson and Bridget Fury, two prostitutes who became famous after murdering a number of their associates, to the faux-revolutionary 'filibusters' who, backed by hundreds of thousands of dollars of public support - though without official governmental approval - undertook military missions to take over the bordering Spanish regions in Texas, the French Quarter had it all. Once again, Asbury takes the reader on an intriguing journey through a unique history of the American underworld.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Herbert Asbury was born into a strictly Methodist family in Missouri in 1889. His pious background and his subsequent rejection of Methodism greatly influenced both his philosophy of life and his career as reporter and author. Indeed, many of his books deal with the darker, seamier side of American life. He died in 1963 of chronic lung problems, the legacy of a gas-attack in France during the first World War.

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Verlag
Arrow
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0099455080
ISBN 13 
9780099455080
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
496
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