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Bronx (New York, N.Y.) Biography Bronx (New York, N.Y.) Social life and customs Clark, Mary Higgins Childhood and youth Clark, Mary Higgins Homes and haunts New York (State) New York Depressions 1929 United States Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald) 1960-1999 Friends and associates Large type books New York (N.Y.) Biography Novelists, American 20th century Biography Terenzio, RoseMarieFilter By Subjects
Bronx (New York, N.Y.) Biography Bronx (New York, N.Y.) Social life and customs Clark, Mary Higgins Childhood and youth Clark, Mary Higgins Homes and haunts New York (State) New York Depressions 1929 United States Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald) 1960-1999 Friends and associates Large type books New York (N.Y.) Biography Novelists, American 20th century Biography Terenzio, RoseMarieSummary: "For the first time in print, rich, provocative first-hand stories of life in the Bronx in the twentieth century. In Bronx Faces and Voices, sixteen men and women tell their personal, uncensored stories of the New York City borough--before, during, and after the troubled years of arson, crime, abandonment, and flight in the 1970s and 1980s. The voices in this volume are as eclectic as the Bronx...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Texas Tech University Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974 BROAlda, Arlene
Summary: The vivid oral histories in Arlene Alda’s Just Kids from the Bronx reveal what it was like to grow up in the place that bred the influencers in just about every field of endeavor today. The Bronx is where Michael Kay, the New York Yankees’ play-by-play broadcaster, first experienced baseball, where J. Crew’s CEO Millard (Mickey) Drexler found his ambition, where Neil deGrasse Tyson and Dava...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974 ALDClark, Mary Higgins.
Summary: In a memoir of growing up in the Bronx during the Depression, the author recalls her father's death in 1939, her family's financial woes, and her mother's creation of a rooming house, bringing in tenants who would change their lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 CLADelgado, Jason
Summary: "The memoir of Jason Delgado, a US Marine scout sniper and MARSOC's first lead sniper instructor. The fight for Jason Delgado's life and soul began when he was just a boy. He ultimately escaped the death and drugs of a crime-riddled Bronx by way of the United States Marine Corps. However, after earning his way into the esteemed ranks of the service's famed Scout Snipers, Delgado saw that old...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DELGADO, JASON DELTerenzio, RoseMarie.
Summary: A former personal assistant to John F. Kennedy, Jr. shares the story of their professional relationship and close friendship, describing how she landed her job under less-than-ideal circumstances, Kennedy's political beliefs, and his untimely death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2002