[PDF.32uh] On the Irish Waterfront: The Crusader, the Movie, and the Soul of the Port of New York (Cushwa Center Studies of Catholicism in Twentieth-Century America)

On the Irish Waterfront: The Crusader, the Movie, and the Soul of the Port of New York (Cushwa Center Studies of Catholicism in Twentieth-Century America)

[PDF.eh33] On the Irish Waterfront: The Crusader, the Movie, and the Soul of the Port of New York (Cushwa Center Studies of Catholicism in Twentieth-Century America)

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 | #581259 in Books |  Cornell University Press |  2009-08-06 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.30 x1.40 x6.10l,1.50 | File type: PDF | 392 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| How our pants came to be named for criminals|By Harry Eagar|The movie "On the Waterfront" presented a simple tale of evil and redemption. The real waterfront was much more complicated.

At midcentury there were almost a thousand piers in New York Harbor, some worked by African-Americans, some by Italian-Americans, some by "Austrians" (dock talk for immigrants from eas|From Publishers Weekly|The true crime story behind Elia Kazan's award-winning 1954 film On the Waterfront is exhaustively detailed in this new history from Catholic historian Fisher (Communion of Immigrants), who follows the tight web of dockworkers, union organ

Site of the world's busiest and most lucrative harbor throughout the first half of the twentieth century, the Port of New York was also the historic preserve of Irish American gangsters, politicians, longshoremen's union leaders, and powerful Roman Catholic pastors. This is the demimonde depicted to stunning effect in Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront (1954) and into which James T. Fisher takes readers in this remarkable and engaging historical account of the cl...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.On the Irish Waterfront: The Crusader, the Movie, and the Soul of the Port of New York (Cushwa Center Studies of Catholicism in Twentieth-Century America)   |  James T. Fisher. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.

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