How bullies shaped 19th-century America

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In 19th century America, it paid to be a bully. At least that's what the subject of today's episode of a History Extra podcast shows us, historian and author Andrew Wender Cohen argues. Speaking to Eleanor Evans, he explains how, long before organized crime took its modern form, violence shaped politics, business, and everyday life across the United States. And he reveals the astonishing true story of Louis Bayl, whose life crossed paths with slavery, the US Civil War, political corruption, and the rise of modern America.

Yeah. This man is really not someone you would like to meet down a dark alley, is he? No, you would not want to meet him in a dark alley. He was quite intimidating in his own time and probably would be even today. He was not a large man. he illustrates the maxim that it's about the size of the fight and the dog, not the size of the dog in the fight. I mean he was only about five six, about a hundred and fifty pounds. So nowadays

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