https://www.cityofsmoke.com New York in History and Anecdote Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:03:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1322 Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:55:33 +0000 http://www.cityofsmoke.com/?p=1322 In 1928 Herbert Asbury published The Gangs of New York, his masterwork on 19th century New York's virile young ruffians. That same year Herbert R. Mayes published Alger: A Biography Without a Hero, the first biography of Horatio Alger Jr., whose works--countless moralizing books for boys--presented his view of the]]>