The Rat That Got Away: A Bronx Memoir

by Allen Jones

Book Overview

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"