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Title: A Battle for the Soul of New York: Tammany Hall, Police Corruption, Vice, and Reverend Charles Parkhur by Warren Sloat ISBN: 0-8154-1237-1 Publisher: Cooper Square Press Pub. Date: October, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Interesting topic sometimes boringly rendered
Comment: The research and material presented in this book describe an episode in New York City history that has not been adequately researched and described in other histories of the Gilded Age. From that perspective I would highly recommend this book to history buffs , especially those with an interest in New York City's past. However I do have reservations regarding how the material is presented. These reservations relate primarily to the narrative becoming repeatedly bogged down in various courtroom battles where testimony is tediously repeated. For me at least this took away from the overall flow of the book. Just as I was becoming absorbed in the story of Rev Parkhurst the scene would shift to the anarchist movement or some intricate explanation of Tammany corruption. These topics are interesting in themselves but the resulting choppiness of the book made it difficult for me to finish.
Rating: 5
Summary: You can fight city hall!
Comment: My wife gave this to me because she knows I like the turn of the century (everything from Henry James to Caleb Carr to the trust busters and so on) but I was skeptical. Who knew?
Who knew this would read better than the best fiction? Who knew it would be charming, gripping, infuriating, uplifiting?
At times, I felt like I was reading Serpico. It's amazing how no matter how much things change, the more they stay the same. Wasn't it just a few years ago that we were reading about the Mollen Commission investigating police corruption?
And it's amazing still that people can make a difference.
Terrific personal stories of immigrants, cops, anarchists, prostitutes, and Parkhurst himself -- Pacino has the power to do him justice in the film version though I bet they go with someone more "uptown."
A great read.
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Title: 722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York by Clifton Hood ISBN: 0801852447 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: October, 1995 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: A History of Housing in New York City by Richard Plunz ISBN: 0231062974 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 1990 List Price(USD): $28.50 |
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Title: City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920 by Timothy J. Gilfoyle ISBN: 0393311082 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: March, 1994 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Power Broker : Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro ISBN: 0394720245 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 July, 1975 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Boss Tweed's New York by Seymour J. Mandelbaum ISBN: 0929587200 Publisher: Ivan R Dee, Inc. Pub. Date: 1990 List Price(USD): $14.90 |
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