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Author Fisher, James Terence.

Title On the Irish waterfront : the crusader, the movie, and the soul of the port of New York / James T. Fisher.

Publication Info. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2009.

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 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  331.7 FISHER    Check Shelf
Description xiv, 370 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
Series Cushwa Center studies of Catholicism in twentieth-century America.
Cushwa Center studies of Catholicism in twentieth-century America.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Chelsea's King Joe -- The boss -- Becoming Mr. Big -- The longshoreman's grandson -- A labor priest in the Catholic metropolis -- The crusader -- Covering the waterfront -- The Hollywood prince -- Meeting across the river -- Priest and worker -- An intimacy with violence -- A season for testimony -- "The hook" -- Good citizens -- Saving the picture -- The mile square city's moment -- The priest in the movie -- "The corruption goes deep" -- The poetry of success.
Subject Stevedores -- Hudson River Region (N.Y. and N.J.)
Irish Americans -- Employment -- Hudson River Region (N.Y. and N.J.)
Port districts -- Corrupt practices -- Hudson River Region (N.Y. and N.J.)
Church work with the working class -- Hudson River Region (N.Y. and N.J.)
Catholic Church -- Missions -- Hudson River Region (N.Y. and N.J.)
On the waterfront (Motion picture)
ISBN 9780801448041 cloth alkaline paper
0801448042 cloth alkaline paper
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