Lures and Snares of Old New York
by Luc Sante
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Luc Sante's Low Life is a portrait of America's greatest city, the riotous and anarchic breeding ground of modernity. This is not the familiar saga of mansions, avenues, and robber barons, but the messy, turbulent, often murderous story of the city's slums; the teeming streetsscene of innumerable cons and crimes whose cramped and overcrowded hous...
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