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First edition. |
| Description |
xiv, 684 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [667]-684). |
| Contents |
Part I: The 1920s, '30s AND '40s. Coney Island -- Here come the Jews -- Jewish troublemakers -- Growing up Jewish: Ira Glasser -- A 'one hundred percent Jewish' childhood: Si Dresner -- The Lincoln brigade: Abe Smorodin -- Victims of Rapp-Coudert: Henry Foner -- On the side of labor: Marvin Miller -- The roots of racism: Dorothy Burnham -- Sports editor of the Daily Worker: Lester Rodney -- The Negro soldiers return from the war: Monte Irvin -- The Jews love Jackie: Joseph Boskin and Joel Oppenheimer -- Jackie Robinson's legacy: Ira Glasser -- Jackie's children: Gene Brock -- The accidental rabbi: Si Dresner -- Victims of the Smith Act: Stan Kanter -- Part II: THE 1940s AND '50s. Victims of McCarthy: Terry (Ted) Rosenbaum -- The absurdity of McCarthyism: Joseph Boskin -- Fearing the unknown: Peter Meinke -- The Protestants blend in: Justus Doeneke -- Moslem immigrants: Dave Radens -- Growing up Greek in Red Hook: Peter Spanakos -- Here come the Italians: Curtis Sliwa -- Here come the Irish: Pete Hamill -- In the country of Brooklyn: Windsor Terrace -- A wild child: John Ford -- Son of Holocaust survivors: Harry Schweitzer -- Part III: THE 1950s AND '60s. For the love of Billy Cox: John Mackie -- The musical genius of Lincoln High: Neil Sedaka -- The end of race music: Bruce Morrow -- The whites discriminate: John Hope Franklin -- The move to the burbs: Ian Grad -- The Dodgers flee west: -- Playing the Communist card -- |
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Part IV: THE 1960s AND '70s. Growing up Black in the hood: Robert Crosson -- Cop on the beat: John Mackie -- The Black Panther: Charles Barron -- Here come the Puerto Ricans: Victor Robles -- Ocean Hill-Brownsville: Clarence Taylor -- Going to school with the moolies: Curtis Sliwa -- Nothing stays the same: Peter Spanakos -- Part V: THE 1980s AND '90s. The guardian angels: Curtis Sliwa -- The king of the tra la las: Neil Sedaka -- The night the lights went out: again: Abram Hall -- Sam's same day cleaners: Bruce Bender -- Whites try to hang on: Harry Schwietzer -- A marine guards the peace: Richard Green -- Shirley Chisholm's protégé: Victor Robles -- Brighton Beach's Russian Jews: Alec Brook-Krasny -- The fight for sexual freedom: Renee Cafiero -- Part VI: THE 21st CENTURY. Echoes of 9/11: Richard Portello -- The mural painter: Janet Braun-Reinitz -- The peace activist: Charlotte Phillips -- The councilman for change: Charles Barron -- The real estate boom: Abram Hall -- The MetroTech Center: Jim Stuckey -- Brooklyn's cheerleader: Marty Markowitz -- The Atlantic Yards: Jim Stuckey -- Boom in Coney Island: Joseph Sitt. |
| Biography |
Peter Golenbock is one of the nation's best-known sports authors and has written some of the bestselling sports books of the last thirty years. He recently completed cowriting an autobiography of Tony Curtis and is currently working on a biography of George Steinbrenner. Five of his books have been New York Times bestsellers. Golenbock's first job was in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. He now lives in St. Petersburg, Florida. -- from publisher (2008). |
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Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
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Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 21st century.
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Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Biography.
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City and town life -- New York (State) -- New York.
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New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
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New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 21st century.
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New York (N.Y.) -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
9780061253812 |
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0061253812 |
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