Bibliograph

The Heroic Gangster, the Story of Monk Eastman, from the Streets of New York to the Battlefields of Europe and Back

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The Heroic Gangster, the Story of Monk Eastman, from the Streets of New York to the Battlefields of Europe and Back

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Heroic Gangster

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

855969306

Sub title

the Story of Monk Eastman, from the Streets of New York to the Battlefields of Europe and Back

Summary

Monk Eastman was born in 1873 to a respectable New York family. By the age of eighteen he was running the streets of Lower Manhattan, first starting as a bouncer, and later as a gang leader who led an army of two thousand. He had both politicians and cops in his pocket and seemed untouchable. That all changed when he was sentenced to ten years at Sing Sing prison after several battles with Pinkerton detectives. He ended up losing all his territory and by the time he got out, realized that the streets were no longer safe enough for him to be around. With that, he immediately jo

Table Of Contents

Cover Page; Also by Neil Hanson; Title Page; Dedication; Copyright; Contents; List of Maps; Part I; Prologue A Lot of Little Wars; 1 The Hall of Tears; 2 Blacker Than a Wolf's Throat; 3 As a Pool Reflects the Sky; 4 A Modern Robin Hood; 5 The Rogues' Gallery; 6 The Gangland Code; 7 The Wolf of Wall Street; 8 The Battle of Rivington Street; 9 The Tombs; 10 A Napoleon Returned from Elba; Part II; 11 O'Ryan's Roughnecks; 12 We Only See Old Men And Boys; 13 This Realm of Silence; 14 The Niagara of Shells; 15 More than Brothers; 16 The Men Must go Forward; 17 A Sort of Sacrifice18 The Hindenburg Line19 The Phantom Division; 20 Always Shall we Honor Them; Part III; 21 The Fighters that they Were; 22 Victimless Crimes; 23 Draped in Black Cloth; Epilogue The Way Things Have Changed; Acknowledgments; Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index

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