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October 2023 issue contents - Columns

‘Butcher’ wasn't from the Five Points

Hollywood relocated notorious ruffian

By Thomas Hunt

Due in large part to Martin Scorsese’s popular 2002 film, Gangs of New York, many have mistaken impressions of Lower East Side gangland history. One of the movie’s (many) distortions was putting character William “Bill the Butcher” Cutting in command of a Civil War Era, Tammany­-employed, Five Points­-based gang of American­born thugs.

The Cutting character from Scorsese’s movie was based on the real “Bill the Butcher” Poole and had a number of similarities with Poole (possibly including the single disabled eye). However, Poole wasn’t around during the Civil War. And he certainly was not a Five Points underworld chief. He wasn’t from there. He wasn’t known to have spent any time there. According to some biographies, he wasn’t even originally from New York...

Book page count: twelve pages.
Magazine page count: six pages.
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Book news

October 2023 issue contents - Books

New/recent releases

Announcements for eight new or recently released books on crime history.

Book page count: six pages.
Magazine page count: two pages.
Images: eight.

(Note: Book news section is not included in audiobook version.)

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2020 paperback gets new cover

"Better late than never"?

The first Informer issue released in trade paperback format (Nicola Gentile issue released in October 2020) was somewhat hastily assembled in response to printing problems (since fixed) with the print magazine format. The cover of that paperback was essentially a stretched out version of the magazine cover, and some of its spine text - black on a dark teal background - was difficult to read on a bookshelf.

It took a few years, but a new cover - simpler in design, but clear, proportional and featuring more readable spine text - has been put in place on the 2020 paperback edition (it has been added to the Kindle and EPUB ebook formats, as well), which remains available for purchase through Amazon.com. Issue content remains unchanged.

Preorder ebook, audiobook formats

October 2023 issue preorder

Ebook, audiobook formats can be preordered now

Ebook and audiobook editions of the October 2023 Informer issue entitled, Gangsters of New York's Lower East Side, are now available for preorder. These books become available for use on the publication date, October 3, 2023.

The ebook is available in both Kindle and EPUB formats, making it readable with popular ebook reader devices and software. The audiobook is accessed through Google Play Books. It can be used with the Google Play Books app for Android and Apple devices, as well as with Google Play's reader through computer web browsers.

(Sorry: Other formats - print and electronic magazines and hardcover and trade paperback print books - are not available for preorder. They will be available for sale on or before October 3.)

Three ebook / audiobook formats are available now for preorder. They will become available for use on the issue publication date, October 3, 2023. Select a format from the table below and click a a seller logo to visit the related preview/purchase website.

Type	Identifier	Dimensions	Color?	Seller	Price (USD)
EBOOKS
Kindle EBook1	ASIN: B0CH26LB4L	N/A	No	Amazon	$9.95
EPUB EBook2	GGKEY: 15L2PWLZWP4	N/A	No	GooglePlay	$9.95
AUDIOBOOK
Audiobook3	GGKEY: 48QRTHAQBHN	8hrs:32mins	N/A	GooglePlay	$12.95
1 - Kindle device or Kindle reader software required. 2 - EPUB device or reader software - such as Calibre - required. 3 - Abridged audiobook edition created through Google Auto-Narrated Audiobook Beta program.

New advertisements

 The following advertisements will be appearing for the first time in the October 2023 issue of Informer. (The images are clickable links.)