On the Irish Waterfront

by James T. Fisher

Book Overview

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