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The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge (Touchstone Books) by David McCullough Publisher Comments This monumental book tells the enthralling story of one of the greatest accomplishments in our nations history, the building of what was then the longest suspension bridge in the world. The Brooklyn Bridge rose out of the expansive era following the... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 by Edwin G. Burrows Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references and index.... (read more) Your price: $34.95 New - Trade Paper
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Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi Publisher Comments "At the age of twelve my ambition was to become a gangster. To be a wiseguy. Being a wiseguy was better than being President of the United States. To be a wiseguy was to own the world." -- Henry Hill Wiseguy is Nicholas Pileggi's remarkable bestseller... (read more) List Price $7.50 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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Underboss: Sammy the Bull Gravano's Story of Life in the Mafia by Peter Maas Publisher Comments In March of 1992, the highest-ranking member of the Mafia in America ever to defect broke his blood oath of silence and testified against his boss, John Gotti. He is Salvatore (Sammy the Bull) Gravano, second-in-command of the Gambino organized-crime... (read more) Your price: $13.99 New - Trade Paper
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The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City by Jennifer Toth Publisher Comments Thousands of people live in the subway, railroad, and sewage tunnels that form the bowels of New York City and this book is about them, the so-called mole people. They live alone and in communities, in subway tunnels and below subway platforms and this... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York by Luc Sante Publisher Comments From opium dens to the Bowery's suicide saloons, this lively, learned work of outlaw urban history ushers readers through the dark heart of New York City in the years between 1840 and 1919. "A systematic, well-researched historical account of... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Paradise Alley by Kevin Baker Publisher Comments At the height of the Civil War, what begins with strong words and a few broken bottles will, over the course of five days, escalate into the worst urban conflagration in American history. Hundreds of thousands of poor Irish immigrants smolder with... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Westies by T J English Publisher Comments Even among the Mob, the Westies were feared. Out of a partnership between two sadistic thugs, James Coonan and Mickey Featherstone, the gang rose out of the inferno of Hell's Kitchen, a decaying tenderloin slice of New York City's West Side. They became... (read more) List Price $7.50 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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The Gangs of Chicago: An Informal History of the Chicago Underworld (Illinois) by Herbert Asbury Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [375]-377) and index.... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Mafia Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the Gambino Crime Family by John H Davis Publisher Comments The Gambinos--they arrived in America from Sicily when the 20's roared with bootleg liquor.For thirty years they fought a bloody battle for control of New York's underworld to emerge as the nation's richest and most powerful crime family. Now Mafia... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $2.50 Used - Mass Market
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American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center by William Langewiesche Publisher Comments Selected as one of the best books of 2002 by The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Sun-Times Within days after September 11, 2001, William Langewiesche had secured unique, unrestricted, round-the-clock... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Here is New York by E. B. White Publisher Comments Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, E.B. White's stroll around Manhattan remains the quintessential love letter to the city, written by one of America's foremost literary figures. The New York Times has named Here is New York one of the ten best books ever... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Hardcover
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The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber From Powells.com This entertaining and morally persuasive portrait of 19th-century London society, from the lowliest of the low to the haughtiest of the high, has been widely hailed as "Dickensian." A better term would be "hyper-Dickensian." Faber's filthy guttersnipes... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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Once Upon a Time in New York: Jimmy Walker, Franklin Roosevelt, and the Last Great Battle of the Jazz Age by Herbert Mitgang Publisher Comments The Jazz Age in New York -- a legendary time in America's liveliest town. Flappers and speakeasies. Gangsters and gun molls. Organized crime and its handmaiden: political corruption. Almost everybody and everything had a price. It was a great time to be... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Ragtime by E L Doctorow Publisher Comments Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the spirit of America in the era between the turn of the century and the First World War. The story opens in 1906 in New... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Old New York in Early Photographs by Mary Black Publisher Comments New York City as it was 1853-1901, through 196 wonderful photographs: great blizzard, Lincoln's funeral procession, great buildings, much more.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Boss of Bosses: The FBI and Paul Castellano by Joseph F. O'brien Publisher Comments In 1983, FBI agents O'Brien and Kurins planted a microphone in Paul Castellano's opulent Staten Island mansion. The 600 hours of recordings led to eight criminal trials, and precipitated this critically-acclaimed and revealing look inside the Mafia". . .... (read more) Your price: $7.99 New - Mass Market
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Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob by Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill Publisher Comments John Connoly and James "Whitey" Bulger grew up together on the streets of South Boston. Decades later, in the mid 1970's, they would meet again. By then, Connolly was a major figure in the FBI's Boston office and Whitey had become godfather of the Irish... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Dreamland by Kevin Baker Publisher Comments In a stunning work of imagination and memory, author Kevin Baker brings to mesmerizing life a vibrant, colorful, thrilling, and dangerous New York City in the earliest years of the twentieth century. A novel breathtaking in its scope and ambition, it is... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Five Points : the 19TH-century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum (01 Edition) by Tyler G. Anbinder Publisher Comments The very letters of the two words seem, as they are written, to redden with the blood-stains of unavenged crime. There is Murder in every syllable, and Want, Misery and Pestilence take startling form and crowd upon the imagination as the pen traces the... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $15.00 Used - Hardcover
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