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The Bowery Boys - Street Corner Radicals and the Politics of Rebellion (Hardcover, New)
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The Bowery Boys - Street Corner Radicals and the Politics of Rebellion (Hardcover, New)
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Shows the reality behind the movie The Gangs of New York In the
decades before the Civil War, the miserable living conditions of
New York City's lower east side nurtured the gangs of New York.
This book tells the story of the Bowery Boys, one gang that emerged
as part urban legend and part street fighters for the city's
legions of young workers. Poverty and despair led to a gang culture
that was easily politicized, especially under the leadership of
Mike Walsh who led a distinct faction of the Bowery Boys that
engaged in the violent, almost anarchic, politics of the city
during the 1840s and 1850s. Amid the toppled ballot boxes and
battles for supremacy on the streets, many New Yorkers feared
Walsh's gang was at the frontline of a European-style revolution. A
radical and immensely popular voice in antebellum New York, Walsh
spoke in the unvarnished language of class conflict. Walsh was an
original, wildly unstable character who directed his aptly named
Spartan Band against the economic and political elite of New York
City and New England. As a labour organizer, state legislator, and
even U.S. the right to strike, free land for settlers on the
American frontier, against child labour, and to restore dignity to
the city's growing number of industrial workers. * Brings to life a
colourful era in American history and politics * Shows the reality
behind the movie The Gangs of New York * Provides an insight into
class and labour history
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