Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Liam Neeson and others.
Herbert Asbury was born into a strictly Methodist family in Missouri in 1889. His pious background and his subsequent rejection of Methodism greatly influenced both his philosophy of life and his career as reporter and author. Indeed, many of his books deal with the darker, seamier side of American life. He is best know for his true crime books set in the 19th and early 20th century America. He died in 1963 of chronic lung problems, the legacy of a gas-attack in France during the first World War.
Asbury was a realist and mid-Western moralist whose book is, as
Gopnik notes, 'a kind of surrealist collage of the city's secret
history'
*Observer*
Like one of the thugs he writes about, he really is an
"extraordinary virtuoso in the art of mayhem"
*Financial Times*
Asbury was a realist and mid-Western moralist whose book is, as
Gopnik notes, 'a kind of surrealist collage of the city's secret
history' -- Robert McCrum * Observer *
Like one of the thugs he writes about, he really is an
"extraordinary virtuoso in the art of mayhem" * Financial Times *
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