Children of the Whirlwind

First published in 1925, Children of the Whirlwind sweeps readers into the tenements, dance halls, and shadowed back streets of New York's Lower East Side, where a young gangster finds his loyalties tested by love, conscience, and the code of the gang. Leroy Scott, a seasoned newspaperman turned novelist, writes with a reporter's immediacy and a reformer's heart, capturing an America of street wars, uneasy alliances, and hard-won second chances. This edition presents the complete, unabridged original text, faithfully reproduced, together with a new introduction and reader's notes that illuminate the novel's real-world setting in the gang-era New York of the 1920s and the career of an author who spent a lifetime writing about labor, crime, and the city. Whether you are meeting a forgotten classic for the first time or returning to an old favorite, this sturdy, handsome volume opens a doorway into a vanished world. Part of The Founding Texts Library.