On The Stoop: Growing Up in a Vanished World
This book is about a world that has vanished. A gritty, grubby, often grim world that I thought was the promised land. I lived there for my first 33 years and it was swiftly disintegrating even as I left more than a half-century ago. It is gone now except for a handful of diehards cherishing the past and cursing the present.
It was a working- class world of immigrants, their children and their grand-children, very American in its peculiar way, very patriotic, hard-working, very Democratic, mostly Catholic albeit with a separation of Lutherans, half- educated, highly opinionated, very tough, parochial in every sense of the word, hostile to outsiders, indifferent to criticism, prejudiced, misogynic, cynical and compassionate in equal measure, fiercely loyal, ignorant as spit, and it was a wonderful world to grow up in.
In other words, Jersey City as it was then, not as it is today
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It was a working- class world of immigrants, their children and their grand-children, very American in its peculiar way, very patriotic, hard-working, very Democratic, mostly Catholic albeit with a separation of Lutherans, half- educated, highly opinionated, very tough, parochial in every sense of the word, hostile to outsiders, indifferent to criticism, prejudiced, misogynic, cynical and compassionate in equal measure, fiercely loyal, ignorant as spit, and it was a wonderful world to grow up in.
In other words, Jersey City as it was then, not as it is today
On The Stoop: Growing Up in a Vanished World
This book is about a world that has vanished. A gritty, grubby, often grim world that I thought was the promised land. I lived there for my first 33 years and it was swiftly disintegrating even as I left more than a half-century ago. It is gone now except for a handful of diehards cherishing the past and cursing the present.
It was a working- class world of immigrants, their children and their grand-children, very American in its peculiar way, very patriotic, hard-working, very Democratic, mostly Catholic albeit with a separation of Lutherans, half- educated, highly opinionated, very tough, parochial in every sense of the word, hostile to outsiders, indifferent to criticism, prejudiced, misogynic, cynical and compassionate in equal measure, fiercely loyal, ignorant as spit, and it was a wonderful world to grow up in.
In other words, Jersey City as it was then, not as it is today
It was a working- class world of immigrants, their children and their grand-children, very American in its peculiar way, very patriotic, hard-working, very Democratic, mostly Catholic albeit with a separation of Lutherans, half- educated, highly opinionated, very tough, parochial in every sense of the word, hostile to outsiders, indifferent to criticism, prejudiced, misogynic, cynical and compassionate in equal measure, fiercely loyal, ignorant as spit, and it was a wonderful world to grow up in.
In other words, Jersey City as it was then, not as it is today
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| ISBN-13: | 9798341802995 |
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| Publisher: | Barnes & Noble Press |
| Publication date: | 10/19/2024 |
| Pages: | 354 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.74(d) |
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