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Author | : Kate Simon |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 1997-08-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0140263314 |
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"As an account of growing up female, it is a fit companion piece to Mary McCarthy's classic Memoirs of a Catholic Girlhood."—Le Anne Schreiber, The New York Times.
Author | : Kate Simon |
Publisher | : HarperCollins Publishers |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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"As an account of growing up female, it is a fit companion piece to Mary McCarthy's classic Memoirs of a Catholic Girlhood."-Le Anne Schreiber, The New York Times.
Author | : Kate Simon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Bronx (New York, N.Y.) |
ISBN | : |
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The classic, unforgettable memoir of a young girl's coming of age, "Bronx Primitive" recalls the vitality of an immigrant neighborhood through the unsentimental eyes of a child. With an unerring eye for detail and an iridescent, clear-eyed prose, Kate Simon captures the particular world of her childhood as well as the universal uncertainties and triumphs of a young girl on the threshold of womanhood
Author | : Trinity Press International |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1999-12-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780340531723 |
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Author | : Mark Naison |
Publisher | : Fordham Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 2016-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0823273547 |
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Residents of the South Bronx during its promising postwar decades tell their stories in their own words. In the 1930s, word spread in Harlem that there were spacious apartments for rent in the Morrisania section of the Bronx. Landlords, desperate to avoid foreclosure, began putting signs in windows and placing ads in New York’s black newspapers that said “We rent to select colored families”—by which they meant those with a securely employed wage earner and light complexions. Black families moved in by the score, beginning a period in which the Bronx served as a borough of hope and upward mobility. Chronicling a time when African Americans were suspended between the best and worst possibilities of New York City, Before the Fires tells the personal stories of men and women who lived in the South Bronx before the social and economic decline of the late 1960s. Located on a hill overlooking a large industrial district, Morrisania offered migrants from Harlem, the South, and the Caribbean an opportunity to raise children in a neighborhood with better schools, strong churches, more shopping, less crime, and clean air. It also boasted vibrant music venues, giving rise to such titans as Herbie Hancock, Eddie Palmieri, Valerie Simpson, the Chantels, and Jimmy Owens. Rich in detail, these interviews describe growing up and living in communities rarely mentioned in other histories. Before the Fires captures the optimism of the period—as well as the heartache of what was lost in the urban crisis and the burning of the Bronx. “Excellent . . . profound, moving.” —Robert W. Snyder, Rutgers University, Newark
Author | : Annie Dillard |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2009-10-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0061857017 |
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"[In] this anthology of well-chosen excerpts by a satisfyingly diverse group of writers....the truth of their lives shines from every beautifully, often courageously composed page."— Booklist “Packed with superb writing.” — New York Newsday Modern American Memoirs is a sampling from 35 quintessential 20th century memoirs, including contributions from Margaret Mead, Malcolm X, Maxine Hong Kingston, Loren Eisely, and Zora Neale Hurston. Supremely written and excellent examples of the art of biography, these excerpts present a beautifully wide range of American life.
Author | : Kate Simon |
Publisher | : HarperCollins Publishers |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Steven Joel Rubin |
Publisher | : Jewish Publication Society |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780827603936 |
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Twenty-eight selections from the writings of some of the best-known American-Jewish novelists, dramatists, critics, and historians span the social and cultural history of American Jews in the twentieth century. Often joyous, occasionally tragic, they provide a fascinating record—from immigration to assimilation, from life in the ghetto to the current movement by many to recapture their Jewish identity. At once personal and historical, the selections are poignant and moving testimonies to the perseverance of the American-Jewish people.
Author | : Lloyd Ultan |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780813528632 |
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Official Bronx Borough Historian Ultan (history, Fairleigh Dickinson U.) and poet Unger (English, Rockland Community College) assemble excerpts from known and unknown writers, and black-and-white photographs, to chronicle the history of New York City's northernmost borough from the middle of the 17th century to the present. The material is presented according to the period the writer is discussing rather than by publication date. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Julian Brash |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0820335665 |
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New York mayor Michael Bloomberg claims to run the city like a business. In Bloomberg's New York, Julian Brash applies methods from anthropology, geography, and other social science disciplines to examine what that means. He describes the mayor's attitude toward governance as the Bloomberg Way—a philosophy that holds up the mayor as CEO, government as a private corporation, desirable residents and businesses as customers and clients, and the city itself as a product to be branded and marketed as a luxury good.Commonly represented as pragmatic and nonideological, the Bloomberg Way, Brash argues, is in fact an ambitious reformulation of neoliberal governance that advances specific class interests. He considers the implications of this in a blow-by-blow account of the debate over the Hudson Yards plan, which aimed to transform Manhattan's far west side into the city's next great high-end district. Bringing this plan to fruition proved surprisingly difficult as activists and entrenched interests pushed back against the Bloomberg administration, suggesting that despite Bloomberg's success in redrawing the rules of urban governance, older political arrangements—and opportunities for social justice—remain.