Herbert Asbury fue un periodista y escritor estadounidense cuyo trabajo se centró en detallar el crimen durante los siglos XIX y principios del XX. Se hizo mejor conocido por sus libros que exploraron los aspectos más oscuros de las ciudades estadounidenses durante estas épocas. Su escritura se destacó por desenterrar narrativas ocultas y eventos detrás de escena que dieron forma a la vida urbana. El trabajo de Asbury ofrece una visión fascinante de la historia del inframundo estadounidense.
"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 as well as such reformers as Frances E. Willard.
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. číst celé
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.
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. Asbury pre