Working and Thinking on the Waterfront
Author : Eric Hoffer
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 32,83 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Stevedores
ISBN :
Author : Eric Hoffer
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 32,83 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Stevedores
ISBN :
Author : Tom Bethell
Publisher : Hoover Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 27,62 MB
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0817914161
Drawn from Eric Hoffer's private papers as well as interviews with those who knew him, this detailed biography paints a picture of a truly original American thinker and writer. Author Tom Bethell interviewed Hoffer in the years just before his death, and his meticulous accounts of those meetings offer new insights into the man known as the "Longshoreman Philosopher."
Author : Amy Hatvany
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 39,76 MB
Release : 2012-02-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1451640552
A gripping novel about a woman who sets out to find the father who left her years ago, and ends up discovering herself. When Eden was ten years old she found her father, David, bleeding on the bathroom floor. The suicide attempt led to her parents’ divorce, and David all but vanished from Eden’s life. Twenty years later, Eden runs a successful catering company and dreams of opening a restaurant. Since childhood, she has heard from her father only rarely, just enough to know that he’s been living on the streets and struggling with mental illness. But lately there has been no word at all. After a series of failed romantic relationships and a health scare from her mother, Eden decides it’s time to find her father, to forgive him at last, and move forward with her own life. Her search takes her to a downtown Seattle homeless shelter, and to Jack Baker, its handsome and charming director. Jack convinces Eden to volunteer her skills as a professional chef with the shelter. In return, he helps her in her quest. As the connection between Eden and Jack grows stronger, and their investigation brings them closer to David, Eden must come to terms with her true emotions, the secrets her mother has kept from her, and the painful question of whether her father, after all these years, even wants to be found. The result is an emotionally rich and honest novel about making peace with the past—and embracing the future.
Author : Nathan Ward
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 49,41 MB
Release : 2010-06-02
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1429933402
What if the world of the old New York waterfront was as violent and mob-controlled as it appears in Hollywood movies? Well, it really was, and the story of its downfall, told here in high style by Nathan Ward, is the original New York mob story. New York Sun reporter Malcolm "Mike" Johnson was sent to cover the murder of a West Side boss stevedore and discovered a "waterfront jungle, set against a background of New York's magnificent skyscrapers" and providing "rich pickings for criminal gangs." Racketeers ran their territories while doubling as union officers, from the West Side's "Cockeye" Dunn, who'd kill for any amount of dock space, to Jersey City's Charlie Yanowsky, who controlled rackets and hiring until he was ice-picked to death. Johnson's hard-hitting investigative series won a Pulitzer Prize, inspired a screenplay by Arthur Miller, and prompted Elia Kazan's Oscar-winning film On the Waterfront. And yet J. Edgar Hoover denied the existence of organized crime - even as the government's dramatic hearings into waterfront misdeeds became must-see television. In Dark Harbor, Nathan Ward tells this archetypal crime story as if for the first time, taking the reader back to a city, and an era, at once more corrupt and more innocent than our own.
Author : Eric Hoffer
Publisher : Time Life Medical
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,6 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780809436026
Author : Eric Hoffer
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 32,53 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Medical
ISBN :
Essays and aphorisms of America's longshoreman philosopher, including "The true believer, " and selections from his diaries.
Author : Eric Hoffer
Publisher :
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 31,48 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Reference
ISBN :
This collection of aphorisms and philosophical comment represents Eric Hoffer at his best. It offers stunning insights that strike home with startling frequency, often most uncomfortably; it has a fine unity, a well-defined theme. That some of the statements invite argument and questioning is inevitable and stimulating. Here is a book of the "wry epigram and the icy aphorism" which made his earlier books so appealing and gained for him a wide audience.--Publisher description.
Author : Eric Hoffer
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,36 MB
Release : 1967
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Harry Kyriakodis
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 30,4 MB
Release : 2011-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1625841884
Join Harry Kyriakodis as he strolls Front Street, Delaware Avenue, and Penn's Landing to rediscover the story of Philadelphia's lost waterfront. The wharves and docks of William Penn's city that helped build a nation are gone lost to the onslaught of over 300 years of development. Yet the bygone streets and piers of Philadelphia's central waterfront were once part of the greatest tradecenter in the American colonies. Local historian Harry Kyriakodis chronicles the history of the city's original port district from Quaker settlers who first lived in caves along the Delaware and the devastating yellow fever epidemic of 1793 to its heyday as a maritime center and then the twentieth century that saw much of the historic riverfront razed.
Author : Barry Bergdoll
Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,82 MB
Release : 2011
Category : City planning
ISBN : 9780870708077
Published to accompany the exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, 24 Mar. - 11 Oct. 2010.