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Gangster of New York: A Violent Life in Nineteenth Century America [Kõva köide]

(Syracuse University, New York)
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This is the story of Louis Bieral, a nineteenth-century gangster, politician, sportsman, and Civil War hero. Kidnapped from his birthplace in revolutionary South America, he doused fires in Jacksonian New York, battled Sumatran pirates with the US Navy, and panned for California gold. As a crime boss, he raced horses, boxed champions, and ran brothels. Yet Bieral's adventurous life was also steeped in the brutality of his time. He befriended rowdies like 'Butcher' Bill Poole, returned fugitives like Anthony Burns to slavery, and assaulted abolitionists such as Richard Henry Dana. As a Union officer, Bieral won fame in battle. He was a Gilded-age bodyguard for 'Boss' Tweed, William Seward, and Jim Fisk, becoming a suspect in that tycoon's murder. From the docks of Valparaíso to the dining room of Delmonico's to the cells of Auburn Prison, Bieral's remarkable journey illustrates the violence that bound nineteenth-century America together.

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The life of Louis Bieral, a celebrated gangster and Civil War hero, reveals the fascinating and violent underworld of nineteenth-century America.
Introduction;
1. Revolutions;
2. Round the World;
3. One of the B'hoys;
4. The Fancy;
5. Golden Year;
6. The Brown Man;
7. Spanish Lewy;
8. Gory
Vision;
9. Reconstruction;
10. Old Soldier.
Andrew Wender Cohen is a professor of history at Syracuse University. He is the author of two books, Contraband: Smuggling and the Birth of the American Century (2015) and The Racketeer's Progress: Chicago and the Struggle for the Modern American Economy, 19001940 (2004). He has held fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study.