How long does it take to read Five Points?
Tyler Anbinder
Five Points by Tyler Anbinder takes about 9 hours 45 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 45 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2001. 532 pages, about 146,300 words.
20 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 15 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 45 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 6 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
""The very letters of the two words seem, as they are written, to redden with the blood-stains of unavenged crime. There is Murder in every syllable, and Want, Misery and Pestilence take startling form and crowd upon the imagination as the pen traces the words." So wrote a reporter about Five Points, the most infamous neighborhood in nineteenth-century America, the place where "slumming" was invented. All but forgotten today, Five Points was once renowned the world over. Its handful of streets in lower Manhattan featured America's most wretched poverty, shared by Irish, Jewish, German, Italian, Chinese, and African Americans. It was the scene of more riots, scams, saloons, brothels, and drunkenness than any other neighborhood in the new world. Yet it was also a font of creative energy, crammed full of cheap theaters and dance halls, prizefighters and machine politicians, and meeting halls for the political clubs that would come to dominate not just the city but an entire era in American politics. From Jacob Riis to Abraham Lincoln, Davy Crockett to Charles Dickens, Five-Points both horrified and inspired everyone who saw it. The story that Anbinder tells is the classic tale of America's immigrant past, as successive waves of new arrivals fought for survival in a land that was as exciting as it was dangerous, as riotous as it was culturally rich."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: City and town life, Ethnic neighborhoods, History, Slums, Social conditions, Nachbarschaft
