Low Life av Lucy Sante

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<p><b>Lucy Sante''s <i>Low Life </i>is a portrait of America''s greatest city, the riotous and anarchic breeding ground of modernity. </b><br><br>This is not the familiar saga of mansions, avenues, and robber barons, but the messy, turbulent, often murderous story of the city''s slums; the teeming streets--scene of innumerable cons and crimes whose cramped and overcrowded housing is still a prominent feature of the cityscape.<br><br><i>Low Life </i>voyages through Manhattan from four different directions. Part One examines the actual topography of Manhattan from 1840 to 1919; Part Two, the era''s opportunities for vice and entertainment--theaters and saloons, opium and cocaine dens, gambling and prostitution; Part Three investigates the forces of law and order which did and didn''t work to contain the illegalities; Part Four counterposes the city''s tides of revolt and idealism against the city as it actually was.<br><br><i>Low Life</i> provides an arresting and entertaining view of wh