BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. ARCHIVAL SOURCES
[A] MARY BECKER COLLECTION (MBC)
Charles Becker letters and Becker family histories in a private archive
[B] NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
Andy Logan papers
[C] CENTRAL ARCHIVES FOR THE HISTORY OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE, JERUSALEM
Judah Leib Magnes Papers
2. OFFICIAL PAPERS
New York State Senate. Report and Proceedings of the Senate Committee Appointed to Investigate the Police Department of the City of New York [Lexow Committee]. In Documents of the Senate of the State of New York, vols. 9–13. Albany: James B. Lyon, 1895.
Special Committee of the Board of Aldermen. The Report of the Special Committee of the Board of Aldermen of the City of New York Appointed August 5, 1912, to Investigate the Police Department [Curran committee]. New York: n.p., 1913.
New York Reports, vols. 210, 215.
3. UNPUBLISHED THESES
Bernstein, Rachel. Boarding-House Keepers and Brothel Keepers in New York City, 1880–1910. Ph.D. thesis, Rutgers University, 1984.
Gandal, Keith. The Spectacle of the Poor: Jacob Riis, Stephen Crane and the Representation of Slum Life. Ph.D. thesis, University of California at Berkeley, 1990.
Kaplan, Michael. The World of the B’hoys: Urban Violence and the Political Culture of Antebellum New York City, 1825–1860. Ph.D. thesis, New York University, 1996.
Levine, Jerald. Police, Parties and Polity: The Bureaucratization, Unionization, and Professionalization of the New York City Police, 1870–1917. Ph.D. thesis, University of Wisconsin, 1971.
Thale, Christopher. Civilizing New York: Police Patrol, 1880–1935. Ph.D. thesis, University of Chicago, 1995.
4. NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS
(all published in New York City unless otherwise stated)
American
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Daily Argus (Middletown, NY)
Daily Sentinel (Fitchburg, MA)
Evening Ledger (Philadelphia, PA)
Evening Post
Globe and Mail
Herald
Journal
McClure’s Magazine
Morning Telegraph
Sullivan County Democrat (Callicoon, NY)
Sullivan County Record ( Jeffersonville, NY)
Sun
Tageblat
Times
Tribune
World
5. PUBLISHED WORKS
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Asbury, Herbert. Sucker’s Progress: An Informal History of Gambling in America from the Colonies to Canfield. New York: Dodd Mead, 1938.
———. The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld. New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 1998.
Astor, Gerald. The New York Cops: An Informal History. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1971.
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Burrows, Edwin, and Mike Wallace. Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Chafetz, Henry. Play the Devil: A History of Gambling in the United States from 1492 to 1950. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1960.
Chamberlain, Rudolph. There Is No Truce: A Life of Thomas Mott Osborne. New York: Macmillan, 1935.
Chin, Gabriel (ed.). New York City Police Corruption Investigation Commissions, 1894–1994, 6 vols. Buffalo: W. S. Hein, 1997.
Christianson, Scott. Condemned: Inside the Sing Sing Death House. New York: New York University Press, 2000.
Clarke, Donald Henderson. In the Reign of Rothstein. New York: Grosset Dunlap, 1929.
———. Man of the World: Recollections of an Irreverent Reporter. New York: Vanguard Press, 1950.
Cohen, Rich. Tough Jews: Fathers, Sons, and Gangster Dreams. New York: Simon Schuster, 1998.
Costello, Augustine. Our Police Protectors: A History of the New York Police. Montclair [NJ]: Patterson Smith, 1972.
Crane, Milton (ed.). Sins of New York. New York: Bantam Books, 1950.
Curran, Henry. Pillar to Post. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1941.
Czitrom, Daniel. “Underworlds and Underdogs: Big Tim Sullivan and Metropolitan Politics in New York, 1889–1913.” Journal of American History 78(1991).
DeArment, Robert. Bat Masterson: The Man and the Legend. Norman [OK]: University of Oklahoma Press, 1989.
Delmar, Viña. The Becker Scandal: A Time Remembered. New York: Harcourt, Brace World, 1968.
Downey, Patrick. Gangster City: The History of the New York Underworld 1900–1935. Fort Lee [NJ]: Barricade Books, 2004.
Eliot, Marc. Down 42nd Street: Sex, Money, Culture, and Politics at the Crossroads of the World. New York: Warner Books, 2001.
English, T. J. Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish-American Gangster. New York: Regan Books, 2005.
Fogelson, Robert. Big City Police. Cambridge [MA]: Harvard University Press, 1977.
Frey, Robert Seitz, and Nancy Thompson. The Silent and the Dammed: The Murder of Mary Phogan and the Lynching of Leo Frank. New York: Cooper Square Press, 2002.
Fried, Albert. The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Gangster in America. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.
Friedman, Jacob. The Impeachment of Governor William Sulzer. London: P. S. King Son, 1939.
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Gilfoyle, Timothy. City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790–1920. New York: W. W. Norton, 1992.
Goren, Arthur. New York Jews and the Quest for Community: The Kehillah Experiment, 1908–1922. New York: Columbia University Press, 1970.
Graham, J. S. The Callicoon Historian: A Narrative of Leading Events in the History of the Delaware Valley, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day. Hancock [NY]: Herald Press, 1892.
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Hammack, David. Power and Society: Greater New York at the Turn of the Century. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.
Harlow, Alvin. Old Bowery Days: The Chronicles of a Famous Street. New York: D. Appleton, 1931.
Henderson, Thomas. Tammany Hall and the New Immigrants: The Progressive Years. New York: Arno Press, 1976.
Hickey, John. Our Police Guardians: History of the Police Department of the City of New-York… New York: n.p., c. 1925.
Homberger, Eric. The Historical Atlas of New York City. New York: Owl Books, 1998.
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Riordan, William. Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: A Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics. Mattituck [NY]: Amereon House, 1982.
Rockaway, Robert. But He Was Good to His Mother: The Lives and Crimes of fewish Gangsters. Jerusalem: Gefen Publishing House, 2000.
Root, Jonathan. The Life and Bad Times of Charlie Becker: The True Story of a Famous American Murder Trial. London: Secker Warburg, 1961.
Rosen, Ruth. The Lost Sisterhood: Prostitution in America, 1900–1918. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982.
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Sharpe, May. Chicago May: Her Story. New York: Macaulay Company, 1928.
Sloat, Warren. A Battle for the Soul of New York: Tammany Hall, Police Corruption, Vice and the Reverend Charles Parkhurst’s Crusade Against Them, 1892–1895. Lanham [MD]: Cooper Square Press, 2002.
Stallman, Robert. Stephen Crane: A Biography. New York: George Brazillier, 1968.
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———. “The Becker-Rosenthal Murder Case: The Cop and the Gambler.” In Frankie Bailey and Steven Chermak (eds.), Famous American Crimes and Trials. Westport [CT]: Praeger, 2004.
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———. A Cop Remembers. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1933.
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