· Now, more than 60 years after it all began, Johnson and his investigation are the subjects of a new book, “Dark Harbor.” Nathan Ward, a former editor at American Heritage who has written for Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins. This gritty examination of the corrupt New York City waterfront provided by Ward, a former editor with American Heritage and Library Jour Dark Harbor: The War for the New York Waterfront. · Dark Harbor: The War for the New York Waterfront, journalist Nathan Ward’s brisk, enthusiastic rendering of this dark and bloody precinct of American history, details a time when “waterfront murders came and went, acts of score settling or territorial consolidation, against a whispery background of labor ‘troubles,’ longshore rackets, and gang rivalries.” Ward lays bare the nexus of .
dark harbor: the war for the new york waterfront by Nathan Ward "A lucid, illuminating history of the epicenter of organized crime in America.". Nathan Ward is the author of The Lost Detective: Becoming Dashiell Hammett (Bloomsbury, nominated for Edgar and Anthony Awards) and Dark Harbor: The War for the New York Waterfront (Picador. Read writing from Nathan Ward on Medium. Author, The Lost Detective: Becoming Dashiell Hammett and Dark Harbor: The War for the New York Waterfront. Upcoming: Charlie Siringo, the Cowboy Detective.
“Nathan Ward's elegant and affectionate visit to gangster New York in the s is excellent true crime and true histroy. Dark Harbor goes on the shelf next to Joseph Mitchell and A.J. Liebling.” —Alan Furst, author of Night Soldiers “Carefully researched, Nathan Ward's Dark Harbor nonetheless reads as if it were ripped from the day's headlines. Here is the real--and fascinating--story of the waterfront.”. For anyone who loves the movie On the Waterfront or just a good story about corruption, Dark Harbor tells a tale of the violent, Mob-controlled New York waterfront of the midth century. Waterfront scribe Budd Schulberg turns up regularly in Nathan Ward's narrative, as does Arthur Miller, then working on Death of a Salesman. Author and editor Nathan Ward tells the story of the waterfront in the ‘50s through the eyes of Malcolm “Mike” Johnson, then a reporter with the New York Sun, producing a captivating account.
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