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.

שנה

2009

שפה

English

סדרה

Cushwa Center studies of Catholicism in twentieth-century America

הוצאה

Cornell University Press

מהדורות

1

עמודים

370

ISBN

9780801448041

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata