Five Points The Nineteenth-Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum

Name: Five Points The Nineteenth-Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum
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ISBN: 9780452283619

ISBN-10: 0452283612

ISBN-13: 9780452283619

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Authors: Tyler G. Anbinder, Tyler Anbinder

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All but forgotten today, the Five Points neighborhood in lower Manhattan was once renowned the world over. It housed America's most impoverished immigrants-the Irish, Jews, Germans, Italians, and African-Americans. Located in today's Chinatown and Little Italy, Five Points played host to more riots, scams, prostitution, and drunkenness than any other neighborhood in America. But it was also crammed full of cheap theaters, dance halls, prizefighting venues, and political arenas that would one day dominate the national scene. From Jacob Riis to Abraham Lincoln, Davy Crockett to Charles Dickens, Five Points horrified and enthralled everyone who saw it. Drawing from letters, diaries,…

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List price: $16.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/24/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 544
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Tyler Anbinder is a professor of history at George Washington University. His first book, Nativism and Slavery, was also a New York Times Notable Book and the winner of the Avery Craven Prize of the Organization of American Historians. He lives in Arlington, VA.



Introduction



Prologue: The Five Points Race Riot of 1834


The Making of Five Points



Prologue: Nelly Holland Comes to Five Points


Why They Came



Prologue: "The Wickedest House on the Wickedest Street That Ever Existed"


How They Lived



Prologue: The Saga of Johnny Morrow, the Street Peddler


How They Worked



Prologue: "We Will Dirk Every Mother's Son of You!"


Politics



Prologue: "This Phenomenon, 'Juba'"


Play



Prologue: The Bare-Knuckle Prizefight Between Yankee Sullivan and Tom Hyer


Vice and Crime



Prologue: "I Shall Never Forget This as Long as I Live": Abraham Lincoln Visits Five Points


Religion and Reform



Prologue: "He Never Knew When He Was Beaten"


Riot



Prologue: "The Boy Who Commands That Pretty Lot Recruited Them for the Seceshes"


The Civil War and the End of an Era



Prologue: "So It Was Settled That I Should Go to America"


The Remaking of a Slum



Prologue: "These 'Slaves of the Harp'"


Italians



Prologue: "The Chinese Devil Man"


Chinatown



The End of Five Points


Notes


Select Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index