Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New YorkMacmillan + ORM, 8 mar. 2016 - 584 pagini The classic social history of corruption and vice in nineteenth-century NYC: “A cacophonous poem of democracy and greed, like the streets of New York themselves” (John Vernon, Los Angeles Times Book Review). Lucy Sante’s Low Life is a portrait of America’s greatest city, the riotous and anarchic breeding ground of modernity. This is not the familiar saga of mansions, avenues, and robber barons, but the messy, turbulent, often murderous story of the city’s slums; the teeming streets—scene of innumerable cons and crimes whose cramped and overcrowded housing is still a prominent feature of the cityscape. Low Life voyages through Manhattan from four different directions. Part One examines the actual topography of Manhattan from 1840 to 1919; Part Two, the era’s opportunities for vice and entertainment—theaters and saloons, opium and cocaine dens, gambling and prostitution; Part Three investigates the forces of law and order which did and didn’t work to contain the illegalities; Part Four counterposes the city’s tides of revolt and idealism against the city as it actually was. Low Life is one of the most provocative books about urban life ever written—an evocation of the mythology of the quintessential modern metropolis, which has much to say not only about New York’s past but about the present and future of all cities. |
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... known other than that it was a " simpler time . " The common word for this kind of distortion is " nostalgia . " This word can be generally defined as a state of inarticulate contempt for the present and fear of the future , in concert ...
... known other than that it was a " simpler time . " The common word for this kind of distortion is " nostalgia . " This word can be generally defined as a state of inarticulate contempt for the present and fear of the future , in concert ...
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... known as the Dead End Kids and the East Side Kids . ) Although the movies were set in a generic slum , the Bowery part of their name was chosen presumably to reflect an image of the Bowery as both lurid and impoverished which had lately ...
... known as the Dead End Kids and the East Side Kids . ) Although the movies were set in a generic slum , the Bowery part of their name was chosen presumably to reflect an image of the Bowery as both lurid and impoverished which had lately ...
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... known to tramps : the Big Smear and the Big Onion . This book came about as a result of my having lived on the Lower East Side for more than a decade . I had gone there in pursuit of bohemia and youth culture , in addition to the fact ...
... known to tramps : the Big Smear and the Big Onion . This book came about as a result of my having lived on the Lower East Side for more than a decade . I had gone there in pursuit of bohemia and youth culture , in addition to the fact ...
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... known as Canal Street ) , and the drained pond was paved over , its site swiftly becoming the city's first slum . Canal Street was the city's northern limit through the 1820s , but by that time village clusters had sprung up at ...
... known as Canal Street ) , and the drained pond was paved over , its site swiftly becoming the city's first slum . Canal Street was the city's northern limit through the 1820s , but by that time village clusters had sprung up at ...
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... known under the Dutch as De Heere Straat, or Main Street, and then forming the lower leg of the Boston Post Road, Broadway has remained consistently the chief of streets throughout New York's history. The chronicle of its paving roughly ...
... known under the Dutch as De Heere Straat, or Main Street, and then forming the lower leg of the Boston Post Road, Broadway has remained consistently the chief of streets throughout New York's history. The chronicle of its paving roughly ...
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