2002, ISBN: 0452283612

[EAN: 9780452283619], [PU: Plume/New American Library], HISTORY NEW YORK CITIES AMERICA FIVE POINTS, New York. 2002. Plume/New American Library. Reprinted Paperback Edition. Very Good in … Mehr…

[EAN: 9780452283619], [PU: Plume/New American Library], HISTORY NEW YORK CITIES AMERICA FIVE POINTS, New York. 2002. Plume/New American Library. Reprinted Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0452283612. 532 pages. paperback. Cover design by Melissa Jacoby. FROM THE PUBLISHER - All but forgotten today, Five Points was once renowned the world over. Its handful of streets in lower Manhattan featured America’s most wretched poverty, shared by Irish, Jewish, German, Italian, Chinese, and African Americans. It was the scene of more riots, scams, saloons, brothels, and drunkenness than any other neighborhood in the new world. Yet it was also a font of creative energy, crammed full of cheap theaters and dance halls, prizefighters and machine politicians, and meeting halls for the political clubs that would come to dominate not just the city but an entire era in American politics. From Jacob Riis to Abraham Lincoln, Davy Crockett to Charles Dickens, Five Points both horrified and inspired everyone who saw it. The story that Anbinder tells is the classic tale of America’s immigrant past, as successive waves of new arrivals fought for survival in a land that was as exciting as it was dangerous, as riotous as it was culturally rich. Tyler Anbinder offers the first-ever history of this now forgotten neighborhood, drawing on a wealth of research among letters and diaries, newspapers and bank records, police reports and archaeological digs. Beginning with the Irish potato-famine influx in the 1840s, and ending with the rise of Chinatown in the early twentieth century, he weaves unforgettable individual stories into a tapes-try of tenements, work crews, leisure pursuits both licit and otherwise, and riots and political brawls that never seemed to let up. Although the intimate stories that fill Anbinder’s narrative are heart-wrenching, they are perhaps not so shocking as they first appear. Almost all of us trace our roots to once humble stock. Five Points is, in short, a microcosm of America. inventory #36752, Books<

2002, ISBN: 9780452283619

New York. 2002. Plume/New American Library. Reprinted Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0452283612. 532 pages. paperback. Cover design by Melissa Jacoby. FROM THE PUBLISHER - All … Mehr…

New York. 2002. Plume/New American Library. Reprinted Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0452283612. 532 pages. paperback. Cover design by Melissa Jacoby. FROM THE PUBLISHER - All but forgotten today, Five Points was once renowned the world over. Its handful of streets in lower Manhattan featured America’s most wretched poverty, shared by Irish, Jewish, German, Italian, Chinese, and African Americans. It was the scene of more riots, scams, saloons, brothels, and drunkenness than any other neighborhood in the new world. Yet it was also a font of creative energy, crammed full of cheap theaters and dance halls, prizefighters and machine politicians, and meeting halls for the political clubs that would come to dominate not just the city but an entire era in American politics. From Jacob Riis to Abraham Lincoln, Davy Crockett to Charles Dickens, Five Points both horrified and inspired everyone who saw it. The story that Anbinder tells is the classic tale of America’s immigrant past, as successive waves of new arrivals fought for survival in a land that was as exciting as it was dangerous, as riotous as it was culturally rich. Tyler Anbinder offers the first-ever history of this now forgotten neighborhood, drawing on a wealth of research among letters and diaries, newspapers and bank records, police reports and archaeological digs. Beginning with the Irish potato-famine influx in the 1840s, and ending with the rise of Chinatown in the early twentieth century, he weaves unforgettable individual stories into a tapes-try of tenements, work crews, leisure pursuits both licit and otherwise, and riots and political brawls that never seemed to let up. Although the intimate stories that fill Anbinder’s narrative are heart-wrenching, they are perhaps not so shocking as they first appear. Almost all of us trace our roots to once humble stock. Five Points is, in short, a microcosm of America. inventory #36752 ISBN: 0452283612., 0<