An intimate biography as well as an epic history, Monk Eastman vividly recounts the life and times of old New York’s most infamous gangster-cum-soldier as he

"A quirky study that intriguingly snapshots a city in times as well as a life."--Kirkus...

A compelling portrait of composer-performer Julius Eastman's enigmatic and intriguing life and music.

Albert Fried recalls the rise and fail of an underworld culture that bred some of America's most infamous racketeers, bootleggers, gamblers, and professional ki

Journalists Craig Thompson and Allen Raymond in 1940 wrote that “...the lower East Side of Manhattan in the first twenty years of the twentieth century was th