The Mayor of Jackson Heights: Growing Up Jewish in New York in the 1950s, Paperback - Cary Silverstein

Reducere. This diverse neighborhood in the shadow of LaGuardia Airport was once called "Manhattan's Bedroom." Famous comedians, actors, physicians, scientist...

An upbringing in the WASP enclaves of suburban Boston gave Arthur D. Ullian an early taste of antisemitism, and later sent him on a search through ...

Reducere. From blackouts in WWII to rocking out to Bill Haley and the Comets, Ocean City native Jim Jeffries recalls his "bay rat" boyhood on the Jersey Shor...

Paul Goodman's Growing Up Absurd was a runaway best seller when it was first published in 1960, and it became one of the defining texts of the New ...

Reducere. A touching and nostalgic look at a childhood in Toronto's Beach District... The world of young people growing up in Toronto in the 1950's and 60's ...

Reducere. An acidic portrait of the grifters and pretenders of the art world, from the celebrated author of The Mars RoomIn Rachel Kushner's latest work of f...

Reducere. Growing Up In The Near North Side Of Chicago is an oral history, turned into a chronicle, obtained by personal interviews with my childhood friends...

Reducere. Aroma unei cafecito caliente se simte langa statia de metrou de pe strada 181! Acolo, o comunitate unita plina de vise si sperante incearca sa isi ...

DescriptionThree thousand people lived in Bentonville, Arkansas in the 1950s, long before it became identified with the largest corporation in the ...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Jesica Siham FernandezIllustration(s): 2 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 264Collection: Critical P...

Reducere. Following in the footsteps of the highly successful Coming of Age in America and Coming of Age Around the World, this new anthology of fiction and ...

Reducere. AS I RECALL... Growing Up in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s in Kenmore, NY and BeyondAntics, Escapades, & Adventures of Gregory Granger Laker: My Auto-bio...

Reducere. The essays in Shadows in the City of Light explore the significance of Paris in the writing of five influential French writers--Sarah Kofman, Patri...

Children of the 1950s have much to look back on with fondness: Muffin the Mule, Andy Pandy, and Dennis the Menace became part of the family for man...

Reducere. "Growing Up In Bay Ridge Brooklyn" Part of The Brooklyn past series of books.... In which neighborhood in Brooklyn did you grow up? Do you yearn fo...

DescriptionTannersville's 140-year Jewish history reflects the development of Judaism in America. Every summer at the turn of the century, 40, 000 ...

Reducere. Alice Denham's lusty memoir is a juicy tell-all about a time when male writers were gods and an aspiring and gorgeous female novelist tries to win ...

Reducere. Explores the influence of Kabbalah in shaping America's religious identity In 1688, a leading Quaker thinker and activist in what is now New Jersey...

Have you always dreamed of living in Silicon Valley and having an easy, perfect life? Well, think again. In Jeremie Gluckman-Picard's In the Shadow...

Reducere. The memoir of Elli Friedmann, who was 13 years old in March 1944 when the Nazis invaded Hungary. She recounts her experience in Auschwitz concentra...

Favourite cars of the 1950s are lavishly illustrated in this little books, with a lively text. They include models from Morris, Austin, Ford, MG, J...

Phil Carradice's account of growing up in Pembrokeshire after the Second World War ended.Publisher: Amberley PublishingAuthor(s): Phil CarradiceIll...

Description Riveting stories of how affluent, white children learn about race American kids are living in a world of ongoing public debates about r...

This book explores how theories of embodiment, the gesture, hysteria and subjectivity can deepen our understanding of New York abstract painting. P...

Reducere. In The Art of the Jewish Family, Laura Arnold Leibman examines five objects owned by a diverse group of Jewish women who all lived in New York in t...

Reducere. Winner, 2019 William J. Goode Book Award, given by the Family Section of the American Sociological AssociationFinalist, 2019 C. Wright Mills Award,...

More than a footnote to the Second World War, or a foreword to the youth-obsessed exhilaration of the Sixties, the Fifties was a thrilling decade d...

A nostalgic look at what it was really like to be a 1950s mother and how the baby-boom generation was madePublisher: The History Press LtdAuthor(s)...

Reducere. First-person account of the famous New York City Cedar Bar in the 1950s when it was regularly visited by what came to be known as the "greatest gen...

Scoring the Hollywood Actor in the 1950s theorises the connections between film acting and film music using the films of the 1950s as case studies....

Reducere. It's June 1953 and ten-year-old Marc Straus is in his mother's car, getting sick from her cigarette smoke on his way to a Hebrew lesson. He and his...

Reducere. Grandparents are our teachers, our allies, and a great source of love. They supply endless stories that connect us to a past way of life and to peo...

This book explores how theories of embodiment, the gesture, hysteria and subjectivity can deepen our understanding of New York abstract painting. P...

The only critically established text of the novel, based on a comprehensive study of the manuscript and Hardy's extensive revisions. Pamela Dalziel...

Level 5. The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy