Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New YorkLuc Sante's Low Life is a portrait of America's greatest city, the riotous and anarchic breeding ground of modernity. |
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... musical play A Trip to Chinatown, set in San Francisco), giving the complaint of the rube: Oh, the night that I struck New York, I went out for a quiet walk; Folks who are “on to” the city say, Better by far that I took Broadway; ...
memoration of the Tenth (Negro) Cavalry, who, popular accounts notwithstanding, actually took the eponymous Cuban elevation well in advance of Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders. The southern portion of the neighborhood was black, ...
Such accommodations were originally intended for emergencies, but a permanent state of emergency soon took hold. These rooms, with planks for bedding, no ventilation of any kind, and the inhibiting presence, passing for protection, ...
... and by visiting nurses and other social workers whose duties took them to the domiciles of the very poorest, who invariably lived on the upper stories after the eradication of cellar lodgings. This hierarchy held for walk-ups, ...
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Comentariu Utilizator - kapheine - LibraryThingThere were a handful of interesting parts, but a lot of it turned into a laundry list of names. Once I decided to start skipping over parts that went too far down into details I started enjoying it a little more. Citește recenzia completă
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Comentariu Utilizator - datrappert - LibraryThingIt took me much longer than it should have to finish this book, because I was constantly putting it down to look up people on Wikipedia or to track down referenced books on Project Gutenberg or ... Citește recenzia completă
Cuprins
xxv | |
Part 2 Sporting Life | ciii |
Part 3 The Arm | ccxxxix |
Part 4 The Invisible City | 107 |
Afterword | 363 |
A Note on Sources | 381 |
Notes | 391 |
Index | 403 |