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Journeys to the Heart of Baltimore

  • ISBN-13: 9781421418452
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Michael Olesker
  • Price: AUD $69.99
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/10/2015
  • Format: Paperback 368 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: History of the Americas [HBJK]
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In Journeys to the Heart of Baltimore, veteran journalist Michael Olesker writes of the American melting pot particularly Baltimore's in all its rollicking, sentimental, good-natured, and chaotic essence. The stories come from neighbourhood street corners and front stoops, playgrounds and school rooms, churches and synagogues, and families gathered around late-night kitchen tables.'Think of this as a love letter across the generations,' Olesker writes. The D'Alesandro political dynasty comes to life here, and so do the legendary Baltimore Colts Lenny Moore and Artie Donovan. The old East Baltimore ethnic enclaves nurture youngsters named Barbara Mikulski and Ted Venetoulis, and out of West Baltimore comes the future Afro-American newspaper publisher Jake Oliver. Journeys to the Heart of Baltimore is a delightful reminder of the nation's ethnic and racial mosaic, where a future mayor named Martin O'Malley and a future Baltimore County executive named Dutch Ruppersberger first learn about the melting pot. Boys from Baltimore's Little Italy, like John Pica, go off to fight a war in Italy when they know their allegiance is being tested. And a city struggles through racial convulsions, remembered by those such as John Steadman and Father Constantine Sitaris.


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Introduction

""Don't Give In to the Bastards""

The Americanization of Zlotte

Dancing on the Roof

Times Square

The Home Movie

""America Was What You Saw at the Movies""

Sinatra and DiMag

The Man in the Closet

Michele and Jake

""You Do Not Have to Melt to be American""

Crossing Park Circle

Lenny and Artie

Twenty-Three Nations

Ray Charles in the Cafeteria

City College

The Forbidden Fruit

The Riots

""You Gotta Marry in the Faith""

God in Protective Custody

O'Malley's March

""A powerful tribute to our vast melting pot... Amid the rich metaphors and unique vernacular that are quintessentially Olesker, Baltimore's mosaic of religions and nationalities become one.""

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