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- catalog abstract "Gang life is both the starting point and the dark side of the American dream. Ethnic groups and immigrants have long turned to gangs for protection and support when it was offered nowhere else. From the Five Points to South Central L.A., Bowery Boys to Bloods and Crips, the James gang to gangsta rap, gangs offer a largely urban version of the American frontier: an opportunity and a refuge for societys outlaws, outcasts, and outsiders. Featuring writing drawn from fiction, nonfiction, and journalism, Gangs takes the reader on a tour of this underground, from accounts of New Yorks violent past by Herbert Asbury (The Gangs of New York) and Mark Helprin (A Winters Tale) to Hunter S. Thompsons report from within the Hells Angels and T.J. English inside Americas most notorious Vietnamese gang. Other selections bring readers into the Irish, Italian, and Jewish Mobs as well as the Triads of Americas Chinatowns, and chart the role of the vicious drug trade in contemporary gang life.".
- catalog contributor b13077294.
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description "Gang life is both the starting point and the dark side of the American dream. Ethnic groups and immigrants have long turned to gangs for protection and support when it was offered nowhere else. From the Five Points to South Central L.A., Bowery Boys to Bloods and Crips, the James gang to gangsta rap, gangs offer a largely urban version of the American frontier: an opportunity and a refuge for societys outlaws, outcasts, and outsiders. Featuring writing drawn from fiction, nonfiction, and journalism, Gangs takes the reader on a tour of this underground, from accounts of New Yorks violent past by Herbert Asbury (The Gangs of New York) and Mark Helprin (A Winters Tale) to Hunter S. Thompsons report from within the Hells Angels and T.J. English inside Americas most notorious Vietnamese gang. Other selections bring readers into the Irish, Italian, and Jewish Mobs as well as the Triads of Americas Chinatowns, and chart the role of the vicious drug trade in contemporary gang life.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 308).".
- catalog description "Photographs -- Introduction -- from Among the thugs / Bill Buford -- from Cold new world; growing up in a harder country / William Finnegan -- from The gangs of New York / Herbert Asbury -- Monk Eastman, purveyor of iniquities / Jorge Luis Borges -- from A clockwork orange / Anthony Burgess -- Capone's revenge / Jeffrey Toobin -- Young convicts / James T. Farrell -- from Down these mean streets / Piri Thomas -- from Land of opportunity / William M. Adler -- Death in Venice / Mike Sager -- from Monster; the autobiography of an LA gang member / Sanyika Shakur -- Gangsta life, gangster death / Ivan Solotaroff -- La post-guerra; war without end in the new El Salvador / Scott Wallace -- Bo ying / Fredric Dannen.".
- catalog extent "xi, 308 p. :".
- catalog identifier "1560254254".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Thunder's Mouth Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "364.1/06/60973 21".
- catalog subject "Gangs United States.".
- catalog subject "HV6446 .G36 2002".
- catalog tableOfContents "Photographs -- Introduction -- from Among the thugs / Bill Buford -- from Cold new world; growing up in a harder country / William Finnegan -- from The gangs of New York / Herbert Asbury -- Monk Eastman, purveyor of iniquities / Jorge Luis Borges -- from A clockwork orange / Anthony Burgess -- Capone's revenge / Jeffrey Toobin -- Young convicts / James T. Farrell -- from Down these mean streets / Piri Thomas -- from Land of opportunity / William M. Adler -- Death in Venice / Mike Sager -- from Monster; the autobiography of an LA gang member / Sanyika Shakur -- Gangsta life, gangster death / Ivan Solotaroff -- La post-guerra; war without end in the new El Salvador / Scott Wallace -- Bo ying / Fredric Dannen.".
- catalog title "Gangs : stories of life and death from the streets / edited by Sean Donahue.".
- catalog type "text".