Andrew Wender Cohen is a professor of history at Syracuse University. He is the author of two books, Contraband: Smuggling and the Birth of the American Century (2015) and The Racketeer's Progress: Chicago and the Struggle for the Modern American Economy, 1900–1940 (2004). He has held fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study.

• Introduction; 1. Revolutions; 2. Round the World; 3. One of the B'hoys; 4. The Fancy; 5. Golden Year; 6. The Brown Man; 7. Spanish Lewy; 8. Gory Vision; 9. Reconstruction; 10. Old Soldier.

'Gangster of New York tells a tale that would challenge today's best mystery writers. Kidnapped from his native Chile by a whaling captain, Louis Bieral survived the mean streets of Manhattan, joined toughs in beating abolitionist Richard Henry Dana Jr., and later toured the globe with former Secretary of State William Henry Seward. In Andrew Wender Cohen's capable hands, Bieral's complicated and contradictory world and career are restored to life in this fascinating and elegantly crafted account.' Douglas R. Egerton, author of A Man on Fire: The Worlds of Thomas Wentworth Higginson