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  • Before the Fires

    An Oral History of African American Life in the Bronx from the 1930s to the 1960s

    by Mark Naison, Bob Gumbs ...
    Residents of the South Bronx during its promising postwar decades tell their stories in their own words.In the 1930s, word spread in Harlem that there were spacious apartments for rent in the Morrisania section of the Bronx. Landlords, desperate to avoid foreclosure, began putting signs in windows and placing ads in New York's black newspapers that said "We rent to select colored families"—by ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Before the Fires

    An Oral History of African American Life in the Bronx from the 1930s to the 1960s

    by Mark D. Naison, Bob Gumbs ...
    People associate the South Bronx with gangs, violence, drugs, crime, burned-out buildings, and poverty. This is the message that has been driven into their heads over the years by the media. As Howard Cosell famously said during the 1977 World’s Series at Yankee Stadium, “There it is, ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning.” In this new book, Naison and Gumbs provide a completely different ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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  • A Song Flung Up to Heaven

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  • Dallas 1963

    by Bill Minutaglio, Steven L. Davis ...
    In the months and weeks before the fateful November 22nd, 1963, Dallas was brewing with political passions, a city crammed with larger-than-life characters dead-set against the Kennedy presidency. These included rabid warriors like defrocked military general Edwin A. Walker; the world's richest oil baron, H. L. Hunt; the leader of the largest Baptist congregation in the world, W.A. Criswell; and ... Read more

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  • Rosebudd the American Pimp

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    Rosebudd the American Pimp is Rosebudd's version of how the game of pimping goes. He tells the ins and outs and the dos and don'ts of the pimp game and the 27 rules he lived by to become one of the greatest pimps that ever lived. The book covers the choices one has to make in order to go to the highest plateau in that lifestule. Rosebudd did all that was in his power to become a legend. His day to ... Read more

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    How I Was Raised by a Tiger Mom but Could Not Be Turned to the Dark Side

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  • Cuz

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    by Danielle Allen ...
    Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Booklist, and Shelf AwarenessA School Library Journal "In the Margins" Recommendation“An elegiac memoir and social jeremiad,” Cuz is “a literary and political event like Toni Morrison’s Playing in the Dark” (Henry Louis Gates Jr.).First appearing in The New Yorker, Danielle A... ... Read more

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  • Native Sons

    by James Baldwin, Sol Stein ...
    James Baldwin was beginning to be recognized as the most brilliant black writer of his generation when his first book of essays, Notes of a Native Son,established his reputation in 1955. No one was more pleased by the book’s reception than Baldwin’s high school friend Sol Stein. A rising New York editor, novelist, and playwright, Stein had suggested that Baldwin do the book and coaxed his old ... Read more

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  • Street Smart

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  • Elsie de Wolfe's Paris

    Frivolity Before the Storm

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    Photographs and stories of the legendary hostess's extravagant parties and glamorous guests in the final months before the Nazis invaded France.The American decorator Elsie de Wolfe was the international set's preeminent hostess in Paris during the interwar years. She had a legendary villa in Versailles, where in the late 1930s she held two fabulous parties—her Circus Balls—that marked the end of ... Read more

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