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Download or read book Trenton Makes written by Tadzio Koelb and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1946, in the hardscrabble industrial city of Trenton, New Jersey, a woman kills her army veteran husband in a domestic brawl—and then assumes his identity. As Abe Kunstler, he secures a factory job, buys a car, and successfully woos a young woman with whom he makes a home. But for Abe, this is not enough: to complete his transformation, he needs a son. Fast-forward to 1971, and the certainties of midcentury triumphalism are a distant, bitter memory, Trenton’s heyday as a factory town is long past, and the family life Abe has so carefully constructed is crumbling under the intolerable pressures of his long ruse. Written in brilliantly stylized prose, Trenton Makes is the indelibly told story of a woman determined to carve out her share of the American Dream.
Book Synopsis A History of Trenton, 1679-1929 by : Edwin Robert Walker
Download or read book A History of Trenton, 1679-1929 written by Edwin Robert Walker and published by . This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 1138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete In One Volume. Additional Contributors Include Hamilton Schuyler, Frederick L. Ferris, Mary J. Messler, And Many Others.
Book Synopsis Rebuild by Design by : Rebuild by Design
Download or read book Rebuild by Design written by Rebuild by Design and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis New Jersey's Multiple Municipal Madness by : Alan J. Karcher
Download or read book New Jersey's Multiple Municipal Madness written by Alan J. Karcher and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alan J. Karcher takes a critical look at how and why the boundary lines of New Jersey's 566 municipalities were drawn, pointing to the irrationality of these excessive divisions.
Book Synopsis The Boys of My Summers by : Leeroy Jordan
Download or read book The Boys of My Summers written by Leeroy Jordan and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-24 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is written to explore the nation wide pandemic of excess and premature death of African American Boys and Men. It has been written in both historical and the current day lenses of a small city; Trenton, New Jersey, located in the Northeastern part of the U.S. and is the capital of the state in which it resides. It is written as a memorium to the more than 250 black boys and men named herein, to celebrate their lives, to acknowledge and mourn thier deaths.
Book Synopsis Soft Corruption by : William E. Schluter
Download or read book Soft Corruption written by William E. Schluter and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-24 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Jersey has long been a breeding ground for political corruption, and most of it is perfectly legal. Public officials accept favors from lobbyists, give paid positions to relatives, and rig the electoral process to favor their cronies in a system where campaign money is used to buy government results. Such unethical behavior is known as “soft corruption,” and former New Jersey legislator William E. Schluter has been fighting it for the past fifty years. In this searing personal narrative, the former state senator recounts his fight to expose and reform these acts of government misconduct. Not afraid to cite specific cases of soft corruption in New Jersey politics, he paints a vivid portrait of public servants who care more about political power and personal gain than the public good. By recounting events that he witnessed firsthand in the Garden State, he provides dramatic illustrations of ills that afflict American politics nationwide. As he identifies five main forms of soft corruption, Schluter diagnoses the state government’s ethical malaise, and offers concrete policy suggestions for how it might be cured. Not simply a dive through the muck of New Jersey politics, Soft Corruption is an important first step to reforming our nation’s political system, a book that will inspire readers to demand that our elected officials can and must do better. Visit: www.softcorruption.com (http://www.softcorruption.com)
Download or read book Field of Schemes written by Neil deMause and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2015-03 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Trenton Firefighting by : Michael Ratcliffe
Download or read book Trenton Firefighting written by Michael Ratcliffe and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few American cities can claim a firefighting history as rich as that of New Jersey's capital. Trenton's first volunteer fire company was organized in 1747 and was followed by more than a dozen other volunteer engine, hose, and hook and ladder companies that protected Trenton until 1892. They were replaced by paid firefighters staffing six engines and two ladders. As the city grew into a major industrial center, the fire department grew with it. Trenton Firefighting tells and honors the story of Trenton's firefighters--both volunteer and paid--and the blazes they have battled, including the 1885 fire that gutted the New Jersey State House, the 1915 conflagration that destroyed the insulated wire mill of John A. Roebling's Sons Company (builder of the Brooklyn Bridge), and the 1975 inferno that razed the historic Trenton Civic Center.
Download or read book Sons of Cain written by Peter Vronsky and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters comes an in-depth examination of sexual serial killers throughout human history, how they evolved, and why we are drawn to their horrifying crimes. Before the term was coined in 1981, there were no "serial killers." There were only "monsters"--killers society first understood as werewolves, vampires, ghouls and witches or, later, Hitchcockian psychos. In Sons of Cain--a book that fills the gap between dry academic studies and sensationalized true crime--investigative historian Peter Vronsky examines our understanding of serial killing from its prehistoric anthropological evolutionary dimensions in the pre-civilization era (c. 15,000 BC) to today. Delving further back into human history and deeper into the human psyche than Serial Killers--Vronsky's 2004 book, which has been called the definitive history of serial murder--he focuses strictly on sexual serial killers: thrill killers who engage in murder, rape, torture, cannibalism and necrophilia, as opposed to for-profit serial killers, including hit men, or "political" serial killers, like terrorists or genocidal murderers. These sexual serial killers differ from all other serial killers in their motives and their foundations. They are uniquely human and--as popular culture has demonstrated--uniquely fascinating.
Book Synopsis Behind the Ivy Walls by : Hal English
Download or read book Behind the Ivy Walls written by Hal English and published by . This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Behind the Ivy Walls" is based on the true story of a young boy seemingly born with the proverbial silver spoon in his mouth. It is written in the time-honored tradition of a feel-bad/feel-good story in which someone else's tragedy teaches us life lessons about positive thinking and seizing each day as a gift. This book details the quest for a true identity, the love of a family and a safe place to call home. After years of mental and physical abuse the boy discovers that he was secretly adopted and begins an unlikely journey to search for his family. In this wonderful Huck Finn type story one surprising deception after another surfaces, culminating in a secret so powerful it had to be buried for more than fifty years. Peppered full of twists, life determining challenges, positive role models, and many surprising skeletons in the closet, it ends with the unraveling of a father's ultimate vengeance and a mother's final retaliation.
Book Synopsis Historical Archaeology of the Delaware Valley, 1600-1850 by : Richard Veit
Download or read book Historical Archaeology of the Delaware Valley, 1600-1850 written by Richard Veit and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Delaware Valley is a distinct region situated within the Middle Atlantic states, encompassing portions of Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Maryland. With its cultural epicenter of Philadelphia, its surrounding bays and ports within Maryland and Delaware, and its conglomerate population of European settlers, Native Americans, and enslaved Africans, the Delaware Valley was one of the great cultural hearths of early America. The region felt the full brunt of the American Revolution, briefly served as the national capital in the post-Revolutionary period, and sheltered burgeoning industries amidst the growing pains of a young nation. Yet, despite these distinctions, the Delaware Valley has received less scholarly treatment than its colonial equals in New England and the Chesapeake region. In Historical Archaeology of the Delaware Valley, 1600–1850, Richard Veit and David Orr bring together fifteen essays that represent the wide range of cultures, experiences, and industries that make this region distinctly American in its diversity. From historic-period American Indians living in a rapidly changing world to an archaeological portrait of Benjamin Franklin, from an eighteenth-century shipwreck to the archaeology of Quakerism, this volume highlights the vast array of research being conducted throughout the region. Many of these sites discussed are the locations of ongoing excavations, and archaeologists and historians alike continue to debate the region’s multifaceted identity. The archaeological stories found within Historical Archeology of the Delaware Valley, 1600–1850 reflect the amalgamated heritage that many American regions experienced, though the Delaware Valley certainly exemplifies a richer experience than most: it even boasts the palatial home of a king (Joseph Bonaparte, elder brother of Napoleon and former King of Naples and Spain). This work, thoroughly based on careful archaeological examination, tells the stories of earlier generations in the Delaware Valley and makes the case that New England and the Chesapeake are not the only cultural centers of colonial America.
Download or read book Mercer Magic written by Clifford Zink and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-14 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History of the Mercer Automobile Company of Trenton NJ, and the Mercer Raceabout, America's First Sports Car
Book Synopsis Crossroads of the Revolution by : William L Kidder
Download or read book Crossroads of the Revolution written by William L Kidder and published by Knox Press. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of Trenton New Jersey during the American Revolution Exhaustively researched and beautifully written, this it he story of revolutionary Trenton, New Jersey both a critical supply post and a crucial junction halfway between loyalist New York, and patriot Philadelphia. Trenton between 1774 and 1783 is a microcosm of the challenges faced by ordinary Americans during the revolution, struggles intensified by Trenton’s geographic location in the state which saw more military activity than others and on a road constantly user to move and supply armies. Life in Trenton connected to just about every aspect of the revolution. The story of the people who lived in Trenton, or who spent time there because of the revolution, helps us better understand the hitherto untold importance of their town beyond the one well known day of battle. Praise for CROSSROADS OF THE REVOLUTION: 1774 - 1783 A meticulous, compelling, and well-researched account of how the American Revolution pivoted around a village in southern New Jersey.– Rick Atkinson, Pulitzer Prize Winning Historian William L. Kidder’s Crossroads of the Revolution: Trenton, 1774-1783is a gem. In this engaging and well-researched narrative, Kidder shines a light on Trenton, its people, and the events that centered on that town. Most Americans know Trenton as the location of George Washington’s post-Christmas victory over a Hessian brigade in 1776. Trenton was, however, much more than that. It was an active and lively town at the center of the American Revolution in New Jersey. Through his lively writing bolstered by assiduous research, Kidder tells the stories of Whigs, Loyalists, slaves, Britons, Hessians, and others who helped make Trenton a crossroads of the American Revolution. Readers will not be disappointed. - Ricardo A. Herrera is Associate Professor of Military History, US Army School of Advanced Military Studies and the author ofFor Liberty and the Republic: The American Citizen as Soldier, 1775-1861. Known by most Americans for an hour of dramatic combat, Trenton was a small but important industrial city at the crux of so much of the War for Independence. Mr. Kidder’s marvelous study not only brings to life Trenton’s many unique personalities, but stands as a valuable case study for how a town and its people weathered and adapted through nine grueling years in the eye of the storm we know as the Revolution.Richard Patterson Executive Director, Old Barracks Museum, Trenton, NJ Most histories of the Revolution remember Trenton, New Jersey, simply as the battle site where George Washington snatched the Patriot cause from the jaws of defeat on December 26, 1776, with his surprise attack on a Hessian brigade. William L. Kidder’s Crossroads of the Revolution, presents a vivid, well-research portrait of a community at war, which reveals the daily courage and persistence it took to win independence. Trentonians faced a daunting array of crises and other challenges between 1774 and 1783, and innumerable options with unpredictable outcomes. Not all chose the same course – not all saw their stories end happily – but all were Americans who sought to define liberty in their own terms – much like their descendants who live in equally uncertain times today. Gregory J. W. Urwin, Professor of History, Temple University
Book Synopsis The Ghost of Put-In-Bay by : Daryl Lukas
Download or read book The Ghost of Put-In-Bay written by Daryl Lukas and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its truest sense, The Ghost of Put-In-Bay is a story of redemption. "Old Joe" Stachowiak, an alcoholic dying of cancer, returns to his favorite place on earth to live out his final days. As the summer goes by, he meets and gradually befriends some workers on the island who help him to rediscover the meaning in his life.
Book Synopsis Cities of the Garden State by : Joel Schwartz
Download or read book Cities of the Garden State written by Joel Schwartz and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Prominent Families of New Jersey by : William Starr Myers
Download or read book Prominent Families of New Jersey written by William Starr Myers and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2000 with total page 1344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Purple Reign written by Bruce Novozinsky and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-06-14 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a summer's day in 1977, Bruce Novozinsky found himself alone in a rest stop off Interstate 95 in Connecticut, clad only in a dress shirt, shorts, and dress shoes after escaping from a Howard Johnson's hotel where his parish priest tried to sexually assault him. Though it would take him a few decades to make the connection, the circumstances of Novozinsky's journey home to Jackson, New Jersey, and the Catholic Church's cover-up of the clergy child sexual abuse scandal made manifest in Boston in 2002, would lead this former altar boy and seminarian to revelations, some difficult to accept, about himself, his faith, and the moral failure of the Church hierarchy he once so loved and trusted. As the world reeled, the author was drawn back to not only his own brushes with opportunistic clergy, but also the schoolmates and friends who fell prey to these predators. The victims, now middle age men who bear the scars of traumatic sexual abuse share their stories, past and present, and the stories of other victims, too, are deftly interwoven in this honest and unpretentious treatment of the clergy sexual abuse crisis in New Jersey's Diocese of Trenton. Novozinsky's unvarnished look at the clerical culture reveals pedophilia as but one facet of the larger crisis - sexually active priests breaking their vows of celibacy with each other; the shielding of clergy through transfers, forced resignations, legal technicalities and prosecutorial deals; the Church's attempted blame shift to homosexuality and society's sexual degeneracy; and the silence of victims, secured through the politics of power and intimidation. The legacy of a succession of local bishops is that they acted first to protect the institution over the victim and employed every means to spare the realm, demonstrating that the crisis played out no differently in the idyllic New Jersey suburbs than it did anywhere else. A story of ecclesiastic corruption punctuated by first-hand accounts, clergy journals, taped conversations, and the author's personal narrative, Purple Reign evokes the 1970's of a Catholic schoolboy as rich and vividly as a memoir should. Novozinsky's emotional tether to the community he grew up in and in which his family is still an active part of resonates in this heartfelt but no nonsense, practical approach for moving the Diocese of Trenton, and indeed the Church as whole, though this crisis collaboratively - with transparency, accountability, and the abundant grace of God - to a place of renewed faith, hope and healing for its victims.
