All Around the Town: Murder, Scandal, Riot and Mayhem in Old New York

by Herbert Asbury

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560255218
• ISBN13: 9781560255215
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Not so much a sequel - its better

This book was compiled a few years after "Gangs of New York". It's a collection of New Yorker magazine articles on the topic, with different subject matter. Much more sophisticated in structure, accessible, fun in that New Yorker kind of tongue-in-cheek way. A great airplane read, you will read it all before you get to either coast.