The author of the New York Times best-seller The Gangs of New York returns with a second volume of tales from Gotham's underworld. In this wonderfully colorful and surprising history, Herbert Asbury
"An absorbing and at times ironical humorous picture of the battle of Prohibition. Recommended." — Library JournalWith the passing of the Volstead Act, the United States embraced Prohibition as
Herbert Asbury's classic chronicle of the birth of San Francisco - a violent explosion from which the infant city emerged full-grown and raging wild. From all over the world practitioners of every vi
First published in 1928, Herbert Asbury's whirlwind tour through the low-life of nineteenth-century New York has become an indispensible classic of urban history. Focusing on the saloon halls, gamblin
In this classic history of crime, the author of The Gangs of New York tells how Chicago's underworld earned - and kept - its reputation. Recounting the lives of such notorious denizens as the origina
Home to the notorious "Blue Book," which indexed the names and addresses of every prostitute living in the city, New Orleans' infamous red light district gained a reputation as one of the most raucou
