Tomothy J. Gilfoyle, Author, Timothy J. Gilfoyle, Author W. W. Norton & Company $24.95 (462p) ISBN 978-0-393-02800-3
This scholarly yet ribald history of New York City's ``whorearchy'' (as early wags termed the ladies of the night) also sheds light on present mores. Gilfoyle, who teaches at Chicago's Loyola University, has produced a Baedeker of NYC's early...
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Timothy J. Gilfoyle, Author . Norton $27.95 (460p) ISBN 978-0-393-06190-1
George Appo, the antihero of this fascinating historical study, was a pickpocket and con man who gained notoriety after testifying in 1894 about police corruption and even played himself on Broadway. Historian Gilfoyle, who in City of Eros
wrote...
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Patricia Cline Cohen, Author, Timothy J. Gilfoyle, Author, Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, Author University of Chicago Press $20 (278p) ISBN 978-0-226-11234-3
Cohen, Gilfoyle and Horowitz, history professors and chroniclers of 19th-century American sexuality, offer an engaging scholarly examination of the little-known weekly newspapers that reported on the sexual underworld of 1840s New York. Such...
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