October 2023 issue contents - Features
The death and life of hoodlum/hero Eastman
By Thomas Hunt
Once infamous as a titan of lower Manhattan gangland, Edward “Monk” Eastman was transformed into a uniquely American military hero through his valiant overseas performance during the Great War. Not long after Monk’s victorious return to his old stamping grounds, as he attempted to find a suitable role for himself in early Prohibition Era New York, he was murdered. The end of his life, like so many of the noteworthy incidents in his underworld career, occurred within the confines of the Lower East Side and following a drunken argument in a bar...
Book page count: forty nine.
Magazine page count: twenty six.
Images: fifteen.
Sidebar articles: one.
Endnotes.
Magazine page count: twenty six.
Images: fifteen.
Sidebar articles: one.
Endnotes.
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