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, ...