Cohen Discusses His New Book, ‘Gangster of New York,’ on HistoryExtra Podcast

August 30, 2026

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Andrew Wender Cohen

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Crime & Violence

United States

HistoryExtra

Andrew Wender Cohen

Andrew Wender Cohen, professor of history and author of Gangster of New York: A Violent Life in Nineteenth-Century America (Cambridge University Press, 2026), was featured on the HistoryExtra podcast.

Following the remarkable career of Louis Bieral—a boxer, gambler, political enforcer and American Civil War veteran—Cohen uncovers how one man's life illuminates the brutal realities of the 19th-century U.S., from slavery and organised crime to political corruption and the struggle to establish the rule of law.