On the Irish Waterfront

by James T. Fisher

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0801448042

ISBN13:9780801448041

Release Date:September 2009

Publisher:Cornell University Press

Length:392 Pages

Weight:1.60 lbs.

Dimensions:1.4" x 6.1" x 9.3"

Age Range:18 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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