Scoundrels in law : the trials of Howe & Hummel, lawyers to the gangsters, cops, starlets, and rakes who made the Guilded Age
Publication details: New York. Smithsonian Books. 9/16/2011Description: [xxv], 324 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780061714283 (hardback) 0061714283 (hardback)
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This true story of the most colorful and notorious law firm in American history offers an inside look at crime and punishment in the nineteenth century, and a whirlwind tour of New York's Gilded Age. In Howe & Hummel's prime, it would not have been unusual to see a leading politician, a pickpocket, a Broadway star, a bank robber, and a socialite all together in their waiting room, located conv
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