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It
Happened in Brooklyn
Mid-century Brooklyn was the home of the Dodgers, stoop-ball and stick-ball, a booming Coney Island, and some of the best high schools in America. It also had a more somber side: gangs, red-lining, and block-busting. In this spirited evocation, more than one hundred voices reflect on the three decades in the borough between World War II and the Viet Nam War. Earthy and humorous, poignant and nostalgic, this book is an album, chronicle, and celebration of the Brooklyn of legend. Illustrated with period photographs. Myrna Katz Frommer and Harvey Frommer are a husband-and-wife team specializing in oral history. The authors of such notable books as It Happened on Broadway, Growing Up Jewish in America, and It Happened in the Catskills, they live in Lyme, New Hampshire, and both teach at Dartmouth College. For publicity information contact our publicity manager, phone: (608) 263-0734, email: publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu |
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