· This is the demimonde depicted to stunning effect in Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront () and into which Ja This is the demimonde depicted to stunning effect in Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront () and into which James T. Fisher takes readers in this remarkable and engaging historical account of the classic film's backstory/5. The real story of gangsters, politicians, longshoremen, union leaders, and Catholic priests that informed the classic film, On the Waterfront. www.doorway.ru: On the Irish Waterfront: This first edition, first printing, book is signed by the author and inscribed to "Ed Robertson - With my very best Irish Waterfront wishes." This book is in near fine condition. The dust jacket is in very good condition with some rippling of the back upper cover. Photographs of this book are attached.
The ILHS is very pleased to present Irish American historian James T. Fisher, who will discuss his research on Irish Americans in the construction of the Panama www.doorway.ru, is a prolific historian of Irish America, notably author of On the Irish Waterfront: The Crusader, the Movie, and the Soul of the Port of New York. On the Irish Waterfront: The Crusader, the Movie, and the Soul of the Port of New York James Terence Fisher, Author Cornell University Press $ (p) ISBN Buy this book. "James T. Fisher penetrates the code of silence that characterized the Irish culture of New York's waterfront, bringing to life the violent world of longshoremen, crooked unionists, politicians and businessmen, crusading writers, and Catholic clerics fighting over control of the nation's busiest port and what moral code it would live by.
On the Irish Waterfront: The Crusader, the Movie, and the Soul of the Port of New York by James T. Fisher | Editorial Reviews. Paperback $ Hardcover. On the Irish Waterfront: The Crusader, the Movie, and the Soul of the Port of New York (Cushwa Center Studies of Catholicism in Twentieth-Century America series) by James T. Fisher. This is the setting for James T. Fisher's On the Irish Waterfront, a fascinating work of history that explores the rise of New York's commercial port from the early s to the s and the corruption that eventually infiltrated all levels of the cargo business, until a crusading priest helped to put a stop to it―and inspired a classic film along the way.".
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