On the Irish waterfront

"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 account of the classic film's backstory."--Inside jacket.

Year

2009

Language

English

Series

Cushwa Center studies of Catholicism in twentieth-century America

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Editions

1

Pages

370

ISBN

9780801448041

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