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It Happened in Brooklyn An Oral History of Growing Up in the Borough in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s Myrna Katz Frommer and Harvey Frommer New Introduction “Throbs with life and affection.”—Publishers Weekly It also had a more somber side: gangs, red-lining, and block-busting. In this spirited evocation, more than one hundred voices reflect on the three decades in the borough between World War II and the Viet Nam War. Earthy and humorous, poignant and nostalgic, this book is an album, chronicle, and celebration of the Brooklyn of legend. Illustrated with period photographs. Myrna Katz Frommer and Harvey Frommer are a husband-and-wife team specializing in oral history. The authors of such notable books as It Happened in the Catskills, It Happened on Broadway, and Growing Up Jewish in America, they live in Lyme, New Hampshire, and both teach at Dartmouth College in Hanover. For more information regarding publicity and reviews contact our publicity manager, Chris Caldwell, phone: (608) 263-0734, email: publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu

Fall 2004 LC: 2004054618 F 272 pp.   8 x 10 280 b/w photos ISBN-10: 0-299-20614-9 ISBN-13: 978-0-299-20614-7 Paper $26.95 t Add titles to your shopping cart by clicking on the "Add this book to cart" link above. You can submit your order electronically, paying for it with your credit card. Click here for a further explanation of the shopping cart feature Never ordered from us before? Read this first.

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