The Eight Million: Journal of a New York Correspondent

By Meyer Berger

Book Overview

The New York of the 1930's: Murder, Inc. and lonely-hearts clubs, marijuana dens in Harlem and nuns on 29th Street, cowboys and diamonds cutters, gypsies and bail bondsmen, the men of the sea an the women of the gangs, Broadway and the Tombs, the rich, the poor, and the eccentric. This is a journalist's view of Gotham in the Golden Age.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231057113
• ISBN13: 9780231057110
• Release Date: October 1983
• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.8" x 5.5"