Out of the Bronx

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1631525409
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (315 download)

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Book Synopsis Out of the Bronx by : Irene Sardanis

Download or read book Out of the Bronx written by Irene Sardanis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irene Sardanis was born into a Greek family in the Bronx in the 1940s in which fear and peril hovered. Her mother had come to New York for an arranged marriage. Her father drank, gambled, and enjoyed other women—and then, when Irene was eleven, abandoned her family altogether. Faced with their mother’s violent outbursts in the wake of this betrayal, Irene’s older siblings found a way out, but Irene was trapped, hostage to her mother’s rage and despair. When she finally escaped her mother as a young adult, she married a neighbor, also Greek, who controlled and dominated her just like her mother always had. But Irene wasn’t ready to let her story end there. With therapy, she eventually found the courage to leave her husband and pursue her own dreams. Out of the Bronx is her story of coming to terms with the mother and past that terrified and paralyzed her for far too long—and of how she went on to create a new life free of those fears.

The Bronx

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Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231121156
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Book Synopsis The Bronx by : Evelyn Gonzalez

Download or read book The Bronx written by Evelyn Gonzalez and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-05 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bronx is a fascinating history of a singular borough, mapping its evolution from a loose cluster of commuter villages to a densely populated home for New York's African American and Hispanic populations. In recounting the varied and extreme transformations this community has undergone, Evelyn Gonzalez argues that racial discrimination, rampant crime, postwar liberalism, and big government were not the only reasons for the urban crisis that assailed the Bronx during the late 1960s. Rather, a combination of population shifts, public housing initiatives, economic recession, and urban overdevelopment caused its decline. Yet she also proves that ongoing urbanization and neighborhood fluctuations are the very factors that have allowed the Bronx to undergo one of the most successful and inspiring community revivals in American history. The process of building and rebuilding carries on, and the revitalization of neighborhoods and a resurgence of economic growth continue to offer hope for the future.

Born in the Bronx

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Publisher : Universe Publishing(NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Born in the Bronx by : Johan Kugelberg

Download or read book Born in the Bronx written by Johan Kugelberg and published by Universe Publishing(NY). This book was released on 2007 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hip hop map of the Bronx on inside of dust jacket.

The Bronx

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Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813573211
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Book Synopsis The Bronx by : Lloyd Ultan

Download or read book The Bronx written by Lloyd Ultan and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2015-06 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Use this handy, comprehensive illustrated guidebook to discover the often-overlooked rich cultural, historical, and natural attractions of the Bronx—one of the five boroughs of New York City. Author and foremost Bronx historian Lloyd Ultan and educator Shelley Olson provide detailed descriptions, information, and maps visitors need, including hours and directions, to enjoy both famous and lesser-known historic and architectural marvels, museums, art galleries, performance venues, gardens, parks, and recreation facilities.

Banned in the Bronx

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Publisher : Virtualbookworm Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1589398416
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (893 download)

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Book Synopsis Banned in the Bronx by : Gene Hutmaker

Download or read book Banned in the Bronx written by Gene Hutmaker and published by Virtualbookworm Publishing. This book was released on 2005-02 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baseball fans will relive the past 50 years of America's greatest pastime through the eyes of the Yankee Hater. This book chronicles the year-by-year account of each baseball season with little or no mention of the success of the New York Yankees, but rather a highlight of their failures. This is the Yankee Hater's narration of 50+ years of baseball, life and everything in between.

Just Kids From the Bronx

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Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1627790969
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (277 download)

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Book Synopsis Just Kids From the Bronx by : Arlene Alda

Download or read book Just Kids From the Bronx written by Arlene Alda and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A down-to-earth, inspiring book about the American promise fulfilled." —President Bill Clinton "Fascinating . . . . Made me wish I had been born in the Bronx." —Barbara Walters A touching and provocative collection of memories that evoke the history of one of America's most influential boroughs—the Bronx—through some of its many success stories The vivid oral histories in Arlene Alda's Just Kids from the Bronx reveal what it was like to grow up in the place that bred the influencers in just about every field of endeavor today. The Bronx is where Michael Kay, the New York Yankees' play-by-play broadcaster, first experienced baseball, where J. Crew's CEO Millard (Mickey) Drexler found his ambition, where Neil deGrasse Tyson and Dava Sobel fell in love with science early on and where music-making inspired hip hop's Grandmaster Melle Mel to change the world of music forever. The parks, the pick-up games, the tough and tender mothers, the politics, the gangs, the food—for people who grew up in the Bronx, childhood recollections are fresh. Arlene Alda's own Bronx memories were a jumping-off point from which to reminisce with a nun, a police officer, an urban planner, and with Al Pacino, Mary Higgins Clark, Carl Reiner, Colin Powell, Maira Kalman, Bobby Bonilla, and many other leading artists, athletes, scientists and entrepreneurs—experiences spanning six decades of Bronx living. Alda then arranged these pieces of the past, from looking for violets along the banks of the Bronx River to the wake-up calls from teachers who recognized potential, into one great collective story, a film-like portrait of the Bronx from the early twentieth century until today.

Random Family

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439124892
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Book Synopsis Random Family by : Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

Download or read book Random Family written by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times Set amid the havoc of the War on Drugs, this New York Times bestseller is an "astonishingly intimate" (New York magazine) chronicle of one family’s triumphs and trials in the South Bronx of the 1990s. “Unmatched in depth and power and grace. A profound, achingly beautiful work of narrative nonfiction…The standard-bearer of embedded reportage.” —Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted In her classic bestseller, journalist Adrian Nicole LeBlanc immerses readers in the world of one family with roots in the Bronx, New York. In 1989, LeBlanc approached Jessica, a young mother whose encounter with the carceral state is about to forever change the direction of her life. This meeting redirected LeBlanc’s reporting, taking her past the perennial stories of crime and violence into the community of women and children who bear the brunt of the insidious violence of poverty. Her book bears witness to the teetering highs and devastating lows in the daily lives of Jessica, her family, and her expanding circle of friends. Set at the height of the War on Drugs, Random Family is a love story—an ode to the families that form us and the families we create for ourselves. Charting the tumultuous struggle of hope against deprivation over three generations, LeBlanc slips behind the statistics and comes back with a riveting, haunting, and distinctly American true story.

Bronx Boy

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312278106
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (781 download)

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Book Synopsis Bronx Boy by : Jerome Charyn

Download or read book Bronx Boy written by Jerome Charyn and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-04-11 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Still known as "Baby", although a younger brother has come along, young Charyn makes pocket money delivering eggs, belongs to a group of twelve-year-old wannabe gangsters who meet in a soda shop run by an ex-con, and spends afternoons telling stories to the adoring wife of a wealthy Russian emigre. He becomes famous for his black-and-tans - a concoction of coffee ice cream, seltzer, milk, chocolate sauce, crushed pecans, and "a touch of bitterness that may have been the Bronx". So famous, indeed, that he walks away the winner of an annual black-and-tan contest sponsored by the real-life top gangster, called "The Little Man", Meyer Lansky."--BOOK JACKET.

Lost Boys of the Bronx

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Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1452020558
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Book Synopsis Lost Boys of the Bronx by : James Hannon

Download or read book Lost Boys of the Bronx written by James Hannon and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interviews with ex-members of the New York street gang made famous in the 1960s film "The Wanderers."

We Used to Own the Bronx

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Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438424973
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Book Synopsis We Used to Own the Bronx by : Eve Pell

Download or read book We Used to Own the Bronx written by Eve Pell and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2009-02-19 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inside story of privilege, inherited wealth, and the bizarre values and customs of the American upper crust.

Bronx Masquerade

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0425289761
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (252 download)

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Book Synopsis Bronx Masquerade by : Nikki Grimes

Download or read book Bronx Masquerade written by Nikki Grimes and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beloved and award-winning novel now available in a new format with a great new cover! When Wesley Boone writes a poem for his high school English class, some of his classmates clamor to read their poems aloud too. Soon they're having weekly poetry sessions and, one by one, the eighteen students are opening up and taking on the risky challenge of self-revelation. There's Lupe Alvarin, desperate to have a baby so she will feel loved. Raynard Patterson, hiding a secret behind his silence. Porscha Johnson, needing an outlet for her anger after her mother OD's. Through the poetry they share and narratives in which they reveal their most intimate thoughts about themselves and one another, their words and lives show what lies beneath the skin, behind the eyes, beyond the masquerade.

They Came from the Bronx

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Publisher : Boyds Mills Press
ISBN 13 : 9781563978913
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (789 download)

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Book Synopsis They Came from the Bronx by : Neil Waldman

Download or read book They Came from the Bronx written by Neil Waldman and published by Boyds Mills Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Comanche boy listens to his grandmother reminisce about the days of the buffalo.

When the Bronx Burned

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ISBN 13 : 9780595428304
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (283 download)

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Book Synopsis When the Bronx Burned by : John J. Finucane

Download or read book When the Bronx Burned written by John J. Finucane and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the South Bronx during the 1960s and 70s, unscrupulous landlords and their torch-men set in motion a murderous wave of arson-for-profit, driving hundreds of thousands of people from their homes and injuring, maiming, and killing thousands more-including firefighters. Yet New York's mayor consistently refuses to give the fire department the manpower it needs to investigate the arson, and thousands of suspicious fires go uninvestigated. Jackie Mulligan and his brother firefighters stand up to the heartless evil of the slumlords by demanding that the mayor take action. But when the mayor refuses, Mulligan and his men take a stand against the arsonists, putting their jobs-and their lives-on the line. For Mulligan, the fight has become personal. And there will be only one winner. " John Finucane has written a riveting and fast moving novel Not only does he nail the drama in a way only an experienced firefighter can, he literally puts the reader inside the fire scene Reading John Finucane's comprehensive description brought back memories of my admiration for firefighters everywhere." -Charles J. Hynes Kings County District Attorney Former Fire Commissioner of NYC Author of first novel, Triple Homicide "For twenty years John Finucane breathed the acrid smoke, hauled the heavy hoses, and climbed the telescoping ladders for New York City's heroic fire department. He now writes about it from the gut-with verve, power, and poignancy. This is a fireman's fireman, pulling no punches and telling the story of a firefighter in New York's grittiest neighborhoods during the turbulent 1960s and 70s." -Roger D. McGrath, Ph.D. Author, Gunfighters, Highwaymen & Vigilantes Featured Commentator on the History Channel

The Bronx Stagger

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Publisher : Story Merchant Books
ISBN 13 : 9781970157079
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (57 download)

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Book Synopsis The Bronx Stagger by : Daniel Moskowitz

Download or read book The Bronx Stagger written by Daniel Moskowitz and published by Story Merchant Books. This book was released on 2019-05-11 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sex, Drugs, and the Rock 'n Roll of dysfunction are on the docket of Bronx Family Court, the busiest family court in NYC. Schwartz the Lawyer fights for justice for families in that court while struggling with personal demons that place his own family at risk. In the cross-hairs of this tragi-comedic novel are the minions of the Children's Best Interest Industrial Complex: the judges, lawyers, caseworkers, social workers, therapists, and litigants who populate Bronx Family Court. Bronx Stagger rises from the ashes of Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities to dramatize the inner life of the denizens of The Bronx behind the sealed doors of the courtrooms. With his libido in overdrive, Schwartz is looking for love in all the wrong courtrooms. Immersed in the dysfunctional dance of sex and violence that permeates the Family Court milieu, Schwartz is conflicted by his flagging idealism, nagging conscience and the dulling of his skills against the miasma of mediocrity and C.Y.A. culture that infuses the Family Court/Foster Care System. Accused of sex abuse and domestic violence, Schwartz travels the continuum from apathetic lawyer to outraged litigant as his family is drawn into the Court's vortex of passion. A diverse ensemble of colleagues, clients, and cohorts inhabit the landscape of this novel, each with their own story to tell. The humor ranges from dark to echoes of vaudeville. The tragedy is, well, pretty tragic. The soundtrack of Schwartz's tale is provided courtesy of his infatuation with a star-crossed scion of the Bronx, the Late, Great Bobby Darin. The temporal frame of the novel is the final months of the Twentieth Century, with the horrors of the next century stored like floats in a parade, waiting to be inflated and unfurled.

From the Bronx to the Bayou

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ISBN 13 : 9780692199824
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Book Synopsis From the Bronx to the Bayou by : Mike Fawer

Download or read book From the Bronx to the Bayou written by Mike Fawer and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Over nearly 6 decades, trial attorney Mike Fawer's prolific career as a trial attorney led him to defend a charismatic Louisiana governor, a pioneering Mississippi mayor, and a wrongfully convicted man who spent more than a decade on death row, among many others. In his defense of those clients -- Edwin Edwards, Charles Evers, and Curtis Kyles and all the others -- Fawer was well known as an aggressive advocate who tangled with prosecutors and judges alike. Fawer's skilled and enthusiastic cross-examinations disarmed opponents and persuaded jurors." "In his memoir ... Fawer gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at his wins, losses, and acrimonious relationships with judges that have fascinated colleagues and opponents for years." -from back cover.

Off the Rim

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ISBN 13 : 9780578927787
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (277 download)

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Book Synopsis Off the Rim by : Oscar Rivera

Download or read book Off the Rim written by Oscar Rivera and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photo Journal of growing up in the South Bronx and the Bronx in general with black & white photographs from the 70s through the 90s.

Back in the Bronx

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ISBN 13 : 9780965722100
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (221 download)

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Book Synopsis Back in the Bronx by : Stephen M. Samtur

Download or read book Back in the Bronx written by Stephen M. Samtur and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: