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      The Great Illusion: An Informal History of Prohibition

      Herbert Asbury

      Recommended. - Library Journal. Written by the bestselling author of The Gangs of New York, this wide-ranging survey of the Prohibition era is populated by bootleggers, gangsters, and corrupt police…

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      Not at Night!

      This volume collects 24 creep tales from the early days of Weird Tales. Included are contributions by H.P. Lovecraft, Seabury Quinn, Frank Belknap Long, and many others. Classic chills!

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

      Herbert Asbury

      This volume is a history of the criminal underworld of early 20th- century New Orleans, by the author of The Gangs of New York and The Gangs of Chicago…

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      The Gangs of Chicago: An Informal History of the Chicago Underworld

      Herbert Asbury

      The story of Chicago’s golden age of crime climaxes with a dramatic account of the careers of the biggest of the Big Shots : Big Jim Colosimo, Terrible Johnny Torrio…

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      The Gangs of San Francisco

      Herbert Asbury

      The author of ‘the Gangs of New York’ turns his attention to the seedy underworld of San Francisco, from its gold-rush glories to its subterranean opium dens. Houses of ill-repute…

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      The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld

      Herbert Asbury

      Asbury’s classic chronicle explores the birth of San Francisco–a violent explosion from which the infant city emerged full-grown and raging wild. This is the story of the banditry, opium bouts…

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      The Gangs Of Chicago

      Herbert Asbury

      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…

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      The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld

      Herbert Asbury

      Asbury presents an illumination of the gangs of old New York that ultimately gave rise to the modern Mafia and its depiction in films like The Godfather . Published to…

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      The Great Illusion: An Informal History of Prohibition

      Herbert Asbury

      Recommended. - Library Journal. Written by the bestselling author of The Gangs of New York, this wide-ranging survey of the Prohibition era is populated by bootleggers, gangsters, and corrupt police…

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      The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld

      Herbert Asbury

      Life in mid-19 century New York was tough, and violence and corruption were rife. Two gangs, the Dead Rabbits and the Native Americans, were locked in an endless battle for…

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      The French Quarter

      Herbert Asbury

      This long out-of-print chronicle of the sordid history of New Orleans’s underworld by Asbury ( The Gangs of New York ) chronicles the city’s history as the first gambling capital…

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