| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xx, 250 pages : map ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-233) and index. |
| Contents |
"Dov'e parto?" -- Stirring up the animals -- Broad daylight -- Johnny shot me -- King Joe -- The big story -- They'd never kill a reporter -- The leech and the thug -- A lousy buck -- A cup of coffee -- Meet the boys -- Above the fold -- Just strangers -- Communists and newsmen -- The peacemaker -- Our wit's end -- To speak without fear -- The meeting of minds -- They kill in the dark -- Out of the woods -- Talk or fry -- Last round -- A cheap town -- The crime show -- Learning the score -- Wings of purity -- Twilight -- Epilogue: Saint Peter. |
| Summary |
This gritty examination of the corrupt New York City waterfront provided by Ward, a former editor with American Heritage and Library Journal, has all of the local color, rich detail, and notorious gangland figures of Elia Kazan's film masterpiece, On the Waterfront. Ward parallels the 1948 muckraking efforts of Malcolm Mike Johnson, a legendary New York Sun reporter, to uncover three decades' worth of unsolved rubouts on the West Side docks. Instead, he discovered, in Ward's words, a city apart, with its own bosses, language and codes, bankers, soldiers, and even martyrs. Johnson found widespread corruption linking the city fathers, police, and waterfront racketeers. Ward serves up some stirring profiles of characters like suave lawyer Jim Longhi, with a radical past; shrewd, politically well-connected union boss Joseph Ryan; Father John Corridan, the anticorruption waterfront priest; and stoolie Abe Reles, whose plunge from a Coney Island hotel window ended an early probe into the bloody antics of Murder Inc--Publisher's Weekly. |
| Subject |
Organized crime -- New York (State) -- New York -- Case studies.
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Stevedores -- Labor unions -- New York (State) -- New York -- Case studies.
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Labor unions -- Corrupt practices -- New York (State) -- New York -- Case studies.
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Murder -- New York (State) -- New York -- Case studies.
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Johnson, Malcolm M. (Malcolm Malone), 1904-1976.
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| ISBN |
9780374286224 hardcover |
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0374286221 hardcover |
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