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Herbert Asbury chronicles the immense underbelly of 'The Big Easy'. From Mary Jane 'Bricktop' Jackson and Bridget Fury, two prostitutes who became famous after murdering their associates, to the faux-revolutionary 'filibusters' who undertook military missions to take over the bordering Spanish regions in Texas, the French Quarter had it all.

(Paperback)

The classic book about gangs in 19th-century New York, now filmed by Martin Scorsese. The story tells of the city's dire abysmal poverty and violence, researched from stories, memory and police records.