Monk Eastman : the gangster who became a war hero / Neil Hanson.

"Recounts the life and times of Old New York's most infamous gangster-cum-soldier as he made his way from the sooty streets and dingy saloons of the Lower East Side to the battlefields of the Western front"--Jacket.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hanson, Neil
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Eastman, Monk, > 1873-1920.
Gangsters > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
Criminals > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
Genre:
Biography.
Physical Description:395 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • A lot of little wars
  • The hall of tears
  • Blacker than a wolf's throat
  • As a pool reflects the sky
  • A modern Robin Hood
  • The rogues' gallery
  • The gangland code
  • The wolf of Wall Street
  • The battle of Rivington Street
  • The tombs
  • A Napoleon returned from Elba
  • O'Ryan's roughnecks
  • We only see old men and boys
  • This realm of silence
  • The Niagara of shells
  • More than brothers
  • The men must go forward
  • A sort of sacrifice
  • The Hindenburg line
  • The Phanton Division
  • Always shall we honor them
  • The fighters that they were
  • Victimless crimes
  • Draped in black cloth
  • The way things have changed.