Five Points: The 19th Century New York City Neighborhood that Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum
"...spares no gritty detail in this recreation of this immigrants' hell on earth... --The Washington Post Book World"A careful, intelligent, and sympathetic history." --The New York Times Book Review"Tyler Anbinder has so thoroughly re-created Five Points that the stench of life there all but rises from the page." --New York Daily News"Fascinating...a lively history." --New York Newsday"Five Points has been brought back to life by Tyler Anbinder." --The New York Observer"The author has performed a prodigious...feat of research, leaving no original or secondary source untouched...a solid work of scholarship that deserves a permanent place in any top shelf of urban history." --The Washington Times"A colorful and useful look at a neighborhood which captures the melting pot at its best and worst." --Irish America"[A] fascinating book...Five Pointsprovides absorbing material for anyone interested in our collective past or who loves a good human interest story." --Sun Sentinel"One upon a time, the Five Points was New York's most infamous neighborhood, singled out by generations of reformers and journalists as a hive of nightmarish squalor, violence, disease and crime. But as Tyler Anbinder shows in this compelling challenge to the conventional wisdom, the Five Points slum--bad as it was--was never quote so bad as outsiders wanted it to be. A first-rate history, meticulously researched and populated by an amazing cast of characters." --Edwin G. Burrows, coauthor ofGotham: A History of New York City to 1898, winner of the Pulitzer Prize“New York City is the capital of the world right now, and much of its greatness traces back to certain very old neighborhoods, which trace back to an even older neighborhood, whose name, nearly forgotten today, was Five Points. Here is the history of that neighborhood.” –Paul Berman, author ofA Tale of Two Utopias: The Political Journey of the Generation of 1968.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.