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Herbert Asbury • 78 Items / 16 Books, 48 Articles, 14 Reviews
The Gangs of New York (1928)
by Herbert Asbury
An Informal History of the Underworld
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Published Reviews
  1. Books
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    Hard-Boiled Yeggs (Review)
    Charles Willis Thompson
    The Gangs of New York, by Herbert Asbury
    1. The Gangs of New York by Herbert Asbury
    Commonweal, July 25, 1928, p. 314
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    First Glance (Review)
    Mark Van Doren
    The Gangs of New York, by Herbert Asbury
    1. The Gangs of New York by Herbert Asbury
    The Nation, April 25, 1928, p. 490
  3. The Critics
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    A Critic At Large (Review)
    Adam Gopnik
    Underworld
    1. The Gangs of New York by Herbert Asbury
    The New Yorker, November 11, 2002, pp. 174-183
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    Underworld (Review)
    Russel Crouse
    The Gangs of New York, by Herbert Asbury
    1. The Gangs of New York by Herbert Asbury
    The Outlook, May 2, 1928, p. 34
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    Chronicles of Sin (2 Reviews)
    H.L. Mencken
    Tammany Hall, by M.R. Werner
    1. Tammany Hall by M.R. Werner
    2. The Gangs of New York by Herbert Asbury
    The American Mercury, July 1928, p. 383
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    A Shelf of Recent Books (2 Reviews)
    Don C. Seitz
    Our Surviving Past
    1. The Gangs of New York by Herbert Asbury
    2. Rum, Romance and Rebellion by Charles William Taussig
    The Bookman, June 1928, p. 447
  7. Reviews of Books
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    The Peasants of New York (2 Reviews)
    Malcolm Cowley
    Tammany Hall, by M.R. Werner
    1. Tammany Hall by M.R. Werner
    2. The Gangs of New York by Herbert Asbury
    The New Republic, June 6, 1928, p. 74
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    More of This Rascality (5 Reviews)
    Edmund Pearson
    The Gangs of New York, by Herbert Asbury
    1. The Gangs of New York by Herbert Asbury
    2. Celebrated Trials, and Remarkable Cases of Criminal Jurisprudence by George Henry Borrow and Edward Hale Bierstadt, ...
    3. Trial of the Duchess of Kingston by Lewis Melville
    4. Some Famous Medical Trials by Leonard A. Parry
    5. Warped in the Making: Crimes of Love and Hate by Harry Ashton-Wolfe
    The Saturday Review, April 28, 1928, p. 821