French Quarter - Softcover

Asbury, Herbert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1560254947 ISBN 13: 9781560254942

Publisher: Basic Books, 2003

Synopsis

Home to the notorious "Blue Book," which listed the names and addresses of every prostitute living in the city, New Orleans's infamous red-light district gained a reputation as one of the most raucous in the world. But the New Orleans underworld consisted of much more than the local bordellos. It was also well known as the early gambling capital of the United States, and sported one of the most violent records of street crime in the country. In The French Quarter, Herbert Asbury, author of The Gangs of New York, chronicles this rather immense underbelly of "The Big Easy." From the murderous exploits of Mary Jane "Bricktop" Jackson and Bridget Fury, two prostitutes who became famous after murdering a number of their associates, to the faux-revolutionary "filibusters" who, backed by hundreds of thousands of dollars of public support—though without official governmental approval—undertook military missions to take over the bordering Spanish regions in Texas, the French Quarter had it all. Once again, Asbury takes the reader on an intriguing, photograph-filled journey through a unique version of the American underworld.

About this title

Review:

"For any true-crime collection." -- Library Journal, July 2003

About this edition

• Publisher: Basic Books
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1560254947
• ISBN 13: 9781560254942
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496