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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I read the same book that scorsese read which inspired him to make the film. It's pretty remarkable in that it's a non-fiction account of most of the personalities about at the time. I think it was written in about 1930 when there were still some people about who remembered the period if youre interested it's here
Scorcese's mixed a few characters about for dramatic effect and he doesn't give you a feel of the utter squalour but most of his characters are taken straight from the book and while some of the dates of the events have had a few liberties taken with but I'd say it's not far off the mark