{"title":"Herbert Asbury","description":"Herbert Asbury (1891-1963) was a prolific journalist, editor, newspaperman, and author of The Gangs of New York, The Barbary Coast, The French Quarter, Sucker's Progress, The Gangs of Chicago, and other books.","products":[{"product_id":"the-barbary-coast-an-informal-history-of-the-san-francisco-underworld-paperback","title":"The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe history of the Barbary Coast properly begins with the gold rush to California in 1849. If the precious yellow metal hadn't been discovered . . . the development of San Francisco's underworld in all likelihood would have been indistinguishable from that of any other large American city. Instead, owing almost entirely to the influx of gold-seekers and the horde of gamblers, thieves, harlots, politicians, and other felonious parasites who battened upon them, there arose a unique criminal district that for almost seventy years was the scene of more viciousness and depravity, but which at the same time possessed more glamour, than any other area of vice and iniquity on the American continent. \u003ci\u003eThe Barbary Coast\u003c\/i\u003e is 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 vice stampeded for the blood and money of the gold fields. Gambling dens ran all day including Sundays. From noon to noon houses of prostitution offered girls of every age and race. (In the 1850s, San Francisco was home to only one woman for every thirty men. It was not until 1910 that the sexes achieved anything close to parity in their populations.) This is the story of the banditry, opium bouts, tong wars, and corruption, from the eureka at Sutter's Mill until the last bagnio closed its doors seventy years later.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51367382679775,"sku":"9781560254089","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/CZUdt381Um9781560254089.webp?v=1789106170"},{"product_id":"the-french-quarter-an-informal-history-of-the-new-orleans-underworld-paperback","title":"The French Quarter: An Informal History of the New Orleans Underworld - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eHome 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. But the New Orleans underworld consisted of much more than the local bordellos. It was also well known as the early gambling capital of the United States, and sported one of the most violent records of street crime in the country. In \u003ci\u003eThe French Quarter\u003c\/i\u003e, Herbert Asbury, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Gangs of New York\u003c\/i\u003e, chronicles this rather immense underbelly of \"The Big Easy.\" From the murderous exploits of Mary Jane \"Bricktop\" Jackson and Bridget Fury, two prostitutes who became famous after murdering a number of their associates, to the faux-revolutionary \"filibusters\" who, backed by hundreds of thousands of dollars of public support -- though without official governmental approval -- undertook military missions to take over the bordering Spanish regions in Texas, the French Quarter had it all. Once again, Asbury takes the reader on an intriguing, photograph-filled journey through a unique version of the American underworld.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51367384940767,"sku":"9781560254942","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/7wHFlZKoJW9781560254942.webp?v=1789106174"},{"product_id":"the-gangs-of-new-york-paperback","title":"The Gangs of New York - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1928, Herbert Asbury's \"The Gangs of New York\" is probably best remembered today as the source material for Martin Scorsese's 2002 film of the same name. According to the original publisher's announcement \"this is a history of New York's underworld, from its beginnings in revolutionary times down to its virtual end as an organized force for evil during the first decade of the present century.\" \"The Gangs of New York\" is all of this and much more, a rogues' gallery of arch criminals who spread terror in little old New York when the Bowery flourished. Chinatown was lurid with feuds, and Five Points was a place to avoid both by day and night. An important contribution to American criminology at the end of the 19th century, this volume contains vivid accounts of gang methods, the draft riots, the tong wars, the Bowery, Hell's Kitchen, Tammany Hall's relation to the gangs, and an amazing glossary of underworld slang. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51368265122015,"sku":"9781420981865","price":20.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/YYs9nfFXYo9781420981865.webp?v=1789125141"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/herbert-asbury.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}