The Rat That Got Away: A Bronx Memoir

by Allen Jones

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The Rat That Got Away is an inspiring story of one man's odyssey from the streets of the Bronx to a life as a professional athlete and banker in Europe, but it is also provides a unique vantage point on the history of the Bronx and sheds new light on a neglected period in American urban history.

Allen Jones grew up in a public housing project in the South Bronx at a time-the 1950s-when that neighborhood was a place of optimism and hope for...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:082323102X

ISBN13:9780823231027

Release Date:September 2009

Publisher:Fordham University Press

Length:224 Pages

Weight:1.00 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.3" x 9.1"

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