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To: MikeH who wrote (4760)10/30/1999 5:40:00 PM
From: Merritt  Respond to of 6418
 
<<There are no statistics available that I'm aware of,>>

Then it's an assumption, or an opinion, whichever you prefer.

My contention, based on my own experience, is that there was great publicity given to murders at that time because they were so dramatically outside the norm of social behavior...as I indicated in my note regarding a killing in S.F in 1954.

Publishers often want writers to make their books as lurid or sensational as possible...it sells books, but doesn't mean that interpretations, without documentation, have much relation to actual events.



To: MikeH who wrote (4760)10/30/1999 6:32:00 PM
From: Tom Clarke  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 6418
 
I have a copy of Asbury's The Gangs of New York. What a fun book! The book is filled with guys like Gyp the Blood, Louie the Lump, Dopey Benny, etc.

It's interesting that during the period covered (post Civil War-1920's) the biggest and most corrupt gang was in Tammany Hall. The cops on the beat were just another gang.

At the end of the book there is a glossary of 19th century New York street slang words. That alone was worth the price of the book!


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