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A Pickpocket's Tale
The Underworld of Nineteenth-century New York
by Timothy J. Gilfoyle
ISBN: 0393061906
ISBN-13: 9780393061901
Format: Hardcover
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Summary
Through the story of one pickpocket, George Appo, historian Timothy Gilfoyle uncovers New York City’s late 19th-century underworld, and in doing so renders a vivid canvas of the people, streets, and neighborhoods often neglected by historians. Starting off as a juvenile delinquent, Appo became an enterprising and energetic con man, who eventually ran up against the criminal justice system-and Gilfoyle makes it clear that the police, politicians, and jailers had their own agendas. This vivid social history from below is based on the record of Appo’s testimony in investigations into widespread police corruption.
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"[A] colorful, evocative social history."
"Authoritative, thoroughly researched, eye-opening and grand, good fun to read."
"[Gilfoyle] succeeds in constructing a grand narrative of New York gangs...." -- Jim Rossi
"[Appo's] 99-page memoir, much of which is excerpted in A PICKPOCKET'S TALE is unsentimental, unapologetic and-in a refreshing departure from the norm-un-self-serving....Despite a Dickensian childhood, institutional sadism and bad luck, [Appo] remains honest, in his own way, and is rightly transformed into an American hero." -- Tara McKelvey
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Published date: 2006
Size: 6.75 x 9.75 inches
Weight: 1.8 pounds
Pages: 460
Publisher's Notes
A portrait of professional con man and underworld figure George Appo traces his childhood in the notorious Five Points and Chinatown neighborhoods, his incarcerations in such prisons as the Tombs and Sing Sing, and his stint in the Matteawan State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, where he was reunited with his inmate father.
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A Pickpocket's Tale : The Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York
Gilfoyle, Timothy J
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2006 Full number line present. George Appo's tortured career as a criminal in late 19th century New York. Three leaves with small smudges, otherwise clean. The book has just a trace of edgewear. The jakcet is now in mylar.. First Edition (stated). Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Illus. by Photographs & Artwork. ( more information) Offered by friendly used books (United States)
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A pickpocket's tale; the underworld of nineteenth-century New York
Gilfoyle, Timothy J
W.W. Norton, 2006. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Gilfoyle (history, Loyola U., Chicago) profiles one of 19th-century New York's most significant criminals: George Appo, a pickpocket, confidence man, and opium addict who lived off his criminal activities during his teenage years and much of his adult life, and during the 1870s and 1880s would take as much in a single night as a skilled manual laborer earned in a year. He puts his career in the context of the exploding crime and response to it in the city between the 1840s and the 1890s. (©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) ( more information) Offered by Gulls Nest Books (United States)
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A Pickpocket's Tale The Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York
Gilfoyle, Timothy J
Publicaffairs. New in New dust jacket. 2006. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. New stated first ediiton, first printing hardcover and dust jacket in excellent condition. Protective mylar cover. ; 1.26 x 9.44 x 6.42 Inches; 460 pages . ( more information) Offered by SVIRDEN BOOKS (United States)
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GILFOYLE, TIMOTHY J
W W NORTON & CO LTD, 2006. Brand new. A portrait of professional con man and underworld figure George Appo traces his childhood in the notorious Five Points and Chinatown neighborhoods, his incarcerations in such prisons as the Tombs and Sing Sing, and his stint in the Matteawan State Hospita ( more information) Offered by Thunder Books (United States)
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