The Five Points Concluded

<I>THE FIVE POINTS CONCLUDED</I> completes Rocco Dormarunno's retrospective into the Wild Wild Lower East Side of 19th century Manhattan. Here is Hell-Cat Jane whose sharpened wit teeth and nails tear through a world dominated by men. Here are John and Bart two gun-toting bank robbers who try to rescue a girl from a white-slavery ring. And here are Police Superintendent Michael Connery and his counterpart Dead Rabbit gang leader Petey Daley surviving in their own ways the chaos of it all. </P><P>Mr. Dormarunno's previous book <I>THE FIVE POINTS</I> earned a position of Suggested Reading on the website WWW.IRISHINNYC.FREESERVERS.COM as well as the following praise from Jo Shenman's cable-TV program INTO THE 21St:</P><P>A terrific book about a period in New York's history which until recently has been swept under the rug. I urge everyone with an interest in history or New York to read it!</P>