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Author : Emanuel Celler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book You Never Leave Brooklyn written by Emanuel Celler and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Publisher : Hawthorne Books
ISBN 13 : 0983850445
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (838 download)
Download or read book Leaving Brooklyn written by Lynne Sharon Schwartz and published by Hawthorne Books. This book was released on 2011-10-05 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An injury at birth left Audrey with a wandering eye. Though flawed, the bad eye functions well enough to permit her an idiosyncratic view of the world, one she welcomes in the stifling postwar Brooklyn of the 1950s. During a journey to Manhattan to see a doctor about her sight, she begins to explore the sexual rites of adulthood. But can her romance last? In this beautifully observed novel, Lynne Sharon Schwartz raises themes of innocence and escape while illuminating the rich inner life of a singular girl.
Author : Mari Takabayashi
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 054752868X
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)
Download or read book I Live in Brooklyn written by Mari Takabayashi and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2004-04-22 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From days on the stoop, playing hopscotch and watching fireworks from the rooftops, to school field trips into the city, where zoos and museums await, Michelle introduces readers to her favorite places and things to do. Mari Takabayashi’s diminutive scenes, busy with cheerful detail, bring the beauty and bustle of New York City to life for children all around the world.
Author : Colm Toibin
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 0771085400
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Brooklyn written by Colm Toibin and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2010-04-06 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Costa Novel Award and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Colm Tóibín's internationally bestselling novel is a story of devastating emotional power. At the centre of Colm Tóibín's internationally celebrated novel is Eilis Lacey, one among many of her generation who has come of age in 1950s Ireland but cannot find work at home. When she receives a job offer in America, it is clear to everyone that she must go. Leaving her family and country behind, Eilis heads for unfamiliar Brooklyn, and to a crowded boarding house where the landlady's intense scrutiny and the small jealousies of her fellow residents only deepen her isolation. Slowly, however, the pain of parting and a longing for home are buried beneath the rhythms of her new life—until she begins to realize that she has found a sort of happiness. But just as Eilis begins to fall in love, tragic news summons her back to Ireland, where she unexpectedly finds herself facing an impossible decision.
Author : Wayne Dawkins
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496829905
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)
Download or read book Emanuel Celler written by Wayne Dawkins and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Congressman Emanuel Celler (1888–1981) was a New York City congressman who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1923 to 1973. Celler’s almost fifty-year career was highlighted by his long fight to eliminate national origin quotas as a basis for immigration restrictions and his battles for civil rights legislation. In Emanuel Celler: Immigration and Civil Rights Champion, author Wayne Dawkins introduces new readers to a figure integral to our contemporary political system. Celler’s own immigrant background framed his lifelong opposition to immigration restrictions and his corresponding support for reducing barriers for immigrant entry into the United States. After decades of struggle, he proposed and steered through the House the Hart-Celler Act of 1965, which eliminated national origins as a consideration for immigration, profoundly shaping modern America. Celler was also a consistent advocate for civil rights. As chairman of the House Judiciary Committee from 1949 to 1973 (except for a break from 1953 to 1955), Celler was involved in drafting and passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Civil Rights Act of 1968. During his career he was also deeply involved in landmark antitrust legislation, the establishment of US ties with the state of Israel, and the Gun Control Act of 1968, and was the author of three constitutional amendments, including the 25th that established presidential succession. Dawkins profiles a complex politician who shaped the central tenets of Democratic Party liberalism for much of the twentieth century and whose work remains central to the nation, and our political debates, today. From author Wayne Dawkins: Emanuel Celler (1888–1981) could be the most significant US legislator of the twentieth century. He cosponsored three Constitutional amendments—the twenty-third (voting rights for District of Columbia residents), the twenty-fourth (poll taxes banned), and the twenty-fifth (clear succession established if the president is removed from office). And, as a longtime chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, he reluctantly cosponsored a fourth—the twenty-sixth amendment (18-year-old voting rights). He is also linked to three-hundred laws, notably the Civil Rights Acts of 1957, 1960, 1964 and 1968; the Voting Rights Act of 1965; and his masterpiece, the Hart-Celler Immigration Reform Act of 1965. Over the past decade, Celler, who served fifty years in Congress, has been a supporting cast member in at least a dozen books about immigration or civil rights. He was frequently cited in One Mighty and Irresistible Tide (2020) and noted in two key moments of The Guarded Gate (2019). And he was cited generously in Goliath (2019), a book about Celler’s other passion—antitrust and monopoly busting. But this fall, he will at last be the focus of a full-length biography, Emanuel Celler: Immigration and Civil Rights Champion. And I believe it will become the go-to book for anyone wanting to know more about this history-making legislator.
Author : Demetria L. Lucas
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451609299
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)
Download or read book A Belle in Brooklyn written by Demetria L. Lucas and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-19 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The edtior at Essence magazine Demetria Lucas shares her ultimate dating what-to-dos and what-not-to dos in this fun guide to living the fabulous single life. According to Demetria, most women are too focused (and stressed) on the difficulties of meeting Mr Right to enjoy the dating experience. Instead A Belle in Brooklyn celebrates the joys of singlehood, encouraging personal development and offers tools to help women increase their odds of finding a suitable mate when they are ready for one. Viva la Liberte!
Author : Jonathan Lethem
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307789128
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Motherless Brooklyn written by Jonathan Lethem and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-04-20 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • A complusively readable riff on the classic detective novel from America's most inventive novelist. "A half-satirical cross between a literary novel and a hard-boiled crime story narrated by an amateur detective with Tourette's syndrome.... The dialogue crackles with caustic hilarity.... Unexpectedly moving." —The Boston Globe Brooklyn's very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, Lionel Essrog is an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count, and rip apart our language in startling and original ways. Together with three veterans of the St. Vincent's Home for Boys, he works for small-time mobster Frank Minna's limo service cum detective agency. Life without Frank Minna, the charismatic King of Brooklyn, would be unimaginable, so who cares if the tasks he sets them are, well, not exactly legal. But when Frank is fatally stabbed, one of Lionel's colleagues lands in jail, the other two vie for his position, and the victim's widow skips town. Lionel's world is suddenly topsy-turvy, and this outcast who has trouble even conversing attempts to untangle the threads of the case while trying to keep the words straight in his head. Motherless Brooklyn is a brilliantly original, captivating homage to the classic detective novel by one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation.
Author : Colm Toibin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439149852
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Nora Webster written by Colm Toibin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of contemporary literature’s bestselling, critically acclaimed, and beloved authors: a “luminous” novel (Jennifer Egan, The New York Times Book Review) about a fiercely compelling young widow navigating grief, fear, and longing, and finding her own voice—“heartrendingly transcendant” (The New York Times, Janet Maslin). Set in Wexford, Ireland, Colm Tóibín’s magnificent seventh novel introduces the formidable, memorable, and deeply moving Nora Webster. Widowed at forty, with four children and not enough money, Nora has lost the love of her life, Maurice, the man who rescued her from the stifling world to which she was born. And now she fears she may be sucked back into it. Wounded, selfish, strong-willed, clinging to secrecy in a tiny community where everyone knows your business, Nora is drowning in her own sorrow and blind to the suffering of her young sons, who have lost their father. Yet she has moments of stunning insight and empathy, and when she begins to sing again, after decades, she finds solace, engagement, a haven—herself. Nora Webster “may actually be a perfect work of fiction” (Los Angeles Times), by a “beautiful and daring” writer (The New York Times Book Review) at the zenith of his career, able to “sneak up on readers and capture their imaginations” (USA TODAY). “Miraculous...Tóibín portrays Nora with tremendous sympathy and understanding” (Ron Charles, The Washington Post).
Author : Victor Bardack
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (264 download)
Download or read book You Never Leave Brooklyn written by Victor Bardack and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2024-05-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My story is the story of countless first generation and immigrant Americans. It is also the story of the American Dream as told through the eyes of a child without pretense or calculation. You Never Leave Brooklyn is about hope and opportunity and about America. It is also about a family's personal tragedy and what it took to move beyond it. It is about finding your own place in this great society and working hard utilizing whatever skill you have to build your future. Each of our stories, each of our families. a little different - but so many share the same experiences. For some, it started in a crowded ghetto or on a hard scrapple farm or of coming to America from lands that oppressed, ridiculed and pre-judged. So many of us started with so little, some traveled long voyages on dangerous seas in old, crowded ships and took that chance on their dreams. My story started in a tenement in Brooklyn. Maybe not exactly yours, but you might have been there, your parents or grandparents could have been there or someplace like it. Ours started near the bottom of the economic ladder. But in this Country, our County you could look up and climb up to the top. "Brooklyn" is about the people, the experiences and the learning that happens from childhood to adolescence. Simple and honest, it is viewed through a child's eyes, and then reflected back by that same child as an adult. America was more than a gift; it was an opportunity. A large palette on which to paint your future. Not with oils and brushes, but with hard work and personal risk. Some of us realized all our dreams, some were content with less, but all were given an opportunity to succeed like in no other place in the world.
Author : Steve Brezenoff
Publisher : Carolrhoda Lab ®
ISBN 13 : 1467731889
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (677 download)
Download or read book Brooklyn, Burning written by Steve Brezenoff and published by Carolrhoda Lab ®. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you're sixteen and no one understands who you are, sometimes the only choice left is to run. If you're lucky, you find a place that accepts you, no questions asked. And if you're really lucky, that place has a drum set, a place to practice, and a place to sleep. For Kid, the streets of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, are that place. Over the course of two scorching summers, Kid falls hopelessly in love and then loses nearly everything and everyone worth caring about. But as summer draws to a close, Kid finally finds someone who can last beyond the sunset. Brooklyn, Burning is a fearless and unconventional love story. Brezenoff never identifies the gender of his two main characters, and readers will draw their own conclusions about Kid and Scout. Whatever they decide, Brooklyn, Burning is not a book any teen reader will soon forget. Brooklyn, Burning is the story of two summers in Brooklyn, two summers of fires, music, loss, and ultimately, love.
Author : Ed Edmonds
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476664382
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Baseball Meets the Law written by Ed Edmonds and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baseball and law have intersected since the primordial days. In 1791, a Pittsfield, Massachusetts, ordinance prohibited ball playing near the town's meeting house. Ball games on Sundays were barred by a Pennsylvania statute in 1794. In 2015, a federal court held that baseball's exemption from antitrust laws applied to franchise relocations. Another court overturned the conviction of Barry Bonds for obstruction of justice. A third denied a request by rooftop entrepreneurs to enjoin the construction of a massive video screen at Wrigley Field. This exhaustive chronology traces the effects the law has had on the national pastime, both pro and con, on and off the field, from the use of copyright to protect not only equipment but also "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" to frequent litigation between players and owners over contracts and the reserve clause. The stories of lawyers like Kenesaw Mountain Landis and Branch Rickey are entertainingly instructive.
Author : Fred I. Greenstein
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674518551
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (185 download)
Download or read book Leadership in the Modern Presidency written by Fred I. Greenstein and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nine political scientists and historians evaluate the leadership qualities of presidents Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Reagan.
Author : Nicole Scarcella
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1463412886
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (634 download)
Download or read book Made in Sicily - Born in Brooklyn written by Nicole Scarcella and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michelle Young
Publisher : Editions Jonglez
ISBN 13 : 9782361953126
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (531 download)
Download or read book Secret Brooklyn written by Michelle Young and published by Editions Jonglez. This book was released on 2019 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let Secret Brooklyn guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar. Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Brooklyn guide book and let our local experts show you the well-hidden treasures of an amazing borough. Ideal for local inhabitants and curious travellers alike
Author : Rudy Marzano
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476612951
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book The Last Years of the Brooklyn Dodgers written by Rudy Marzano and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-02-16 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work, which picks up where the author's previous book, The Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1940s (McFarland, 2005), left off, covers the Dodgers' final eight years in Brooklyn. Chapters carry the reader from the 1951 playoffs, when a late season collapse and Thomson's "Shot Heard Round the World" dealt Brooklyn a heartbreaking blow, through the 1955 World Series title, and finally to Walter O'Malley's controversial decision to move the team to Los Angeles. The author covers each season in-depth and assesses popular perceptions of the Dodgers, their players and owners, and considers O'Malley's culpability in the team's departure, which ended a string of 74 years in which Brooklyn had major league baseball.
Author : J W Gallo
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1450277675
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Pasadena to Brooklyn Via Route 66-How Plans Can Change-During the 50'S and 60'S written by J W Gallo and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-12-14 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "Coming of Age Story/Drama". Vince, who grew up on the streets of Brooklyn, New York during the 1940's and 1950's, moves to California. After arriving he enters high school, where he encounters harassment from four boys. They were making derogatory statements about his nationality and asked Vince, if he was in the Mafia, since he was Sicilian. His father tells him about the Mafia and how it played a role in their lives. At one point Vince makes a vow to return to Brooklyn. In 1961 he makes a Road Trip from Pasadena to Brooklyn via Route 66. Once he makes it to Brooklyn, he ends up staying for three months. During which time he rekindles a love interest with an old girlfriend. He finds out how much the Mafia was a part of the lives of people he knows, mainly the girl he falls in love with. Vince decides to return to California because of an ongoing conflict he was having with a candidate running for Assemblyman. Just before leaving he is confronted by his future fiances' father. He threatens Vince by telling him that his daughter better not leave Brooklyn. Vince doesn't know that he is a Mafioso.
Author : Debra A. Mulligan
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476634084
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Democratic Repairman written by Debra A. Mulligan and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-05-17 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As governor of Rhode Island, J. Howard McGrath oversaw the passage of social legislation aimed at improving the lives of his constituents during the dark days of World War II. As a Rhode Island senator he served as the Democratic National Committee Chairman during the contentious 1948 presidential election, when few believed Harry Truman could defeat New York governor Thomas R. Dewey. Following Truman's victory, McGrath could easily have written his own ticket to further political success--but his career was cut short in 1952 when he was forced to resign as Attorney General amid a cloud of scandal. This biography traces the rise and fall of a politician who achieved notable success yet ultimately fell victim to his appetite for power, fame and fortune.
