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Actually the book <i>Gangs of New York</i> by Herbert Asbury is a collection of lore, myth and lies....and that's why it's so great. It's hardly non-fiction. The same is true, I think of Scorsese's movie. It's surreal and unbelievable, and succeeds wonderfully as long as you don't start thinking it's actually historical.
I remember when I first saw it in December, I called it a "New York fantasia," and I still think that's the best term for it.
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"And the Devil did grin
For his darling sin
Is the pride that apes humility." - S.T. Coleridge
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