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BL
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962362
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b716732
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| Main Entry
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Golenbock, Peter,1946-
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| Title & Author
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In the country of Brooklyn : : inspiration to the world /\ Peter Golenbock.
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| Edition Statement
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1st ed.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: William Morrow,, ©2008.
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xiv, 684 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0061253812
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: 9780061253812
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 667-684).
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| Contents
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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.
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| Abstract
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A social history of the borough of Brooklyn draws on first-person interviews to capture its diversity, institutions, and most noteworthy events, in a chronicle that includes discussions with such figures as Pete Hamill, Neil Sedaka, and Bruce Morrow.
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City and town life-- New York (State)-- New York.
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City and town life.
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Manners and customs.
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Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.), Biography.
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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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New York (N.Y.), Biography.
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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 (State), New York, Brooklyn.
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New York (State), New York.
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| Dewey Classification
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974.7/23043
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F129.B7G65 2008
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