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The Muckers William Osborne Dapping

The Muckers By William Osborne Dapping

The Muckers by William Osborne Dapping

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In 1899, William Osborne Dapping was a Harvard-bound nineteen-year-old when he began writing down exploits from his rough childhood in the immigrant slums of New York City. Now published for the first time, The Muckers: A Narrative of the Crapshooters Club recovers a long-lost fictionalized account of Dappings life in a gang of rowdy boys.

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The Muckers: A Narrative of the Crapshooters Club by William Osborne Dapping

In 1899, William Osborne Dapping was a Harvard-bound nineteen-year-old when he began writing down exploits from his rough childhood in the immigrant slums of New York City. Now published for the first time, The Muckers: A Narrative of the Crapshooters

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Provides the point of view of street kids or gang members, something heretofore very hard to have access to in the primary documents of the period, except in tiny bits and snatches. Here, we have a booklength insiders account. Keith Gandal, professor of English, City College of New York

Dappings book is a welcome addition to Progressive Era books on the culture of the streets and, more particularly, street children, the objects of much moralistic, philanthropic, and official attention in this period. Amy Schrager Lang, author of The Syntax of Class: Writing Inequality in Nineteenth-Century Americ

About William Osborne Dapping

William Osborne Dapping (18801969) was an American journalist and editor from Auburn, New York. In 1930, the Pulitzer Prize Committee awarded him a special prize for his reportorial work in connection with the outbreak at Auburn prison in December 1929. Woody Register is the Francis S. Houghteling Professor of American History at Sewanee, the University of the South. He is the author of The Kid of Coney Island: Fred Thompson and the Rise of American Amusements, and he is coauthor of the two-volume series Crosscurrents in American Culture: A Reader in United States History.

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NPB9780815634409
9780815634409
0815634404
The Muckers: A Narrative of the Crapshooters Club by William Osborne Dapping
William Osborne Dapping
New
Hardback
Syracuse University Press
2016-11-30
288
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