The Rat That Got Away : a Bronx Memoir.

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The Rat That Got Away is an inspiring story of one man's odyssey from the streets of the Bronx to a life as a professional athlete and banker in Europe, but it is also provides a unique vantage point on the history of the Bronx and sheds new light on a neglected period in American urban history...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Naison, Mark
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bronx : Fordham University Press, 2009.
Temas:
Jones, Allen, > 1950- > Childhood and youth.
Jones, Allen, > 1950-
1900-1999
African American young men > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
Public housing > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
Drug dealers > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
Preparatory school students > Massachusetts > Great Barrington (Town) > Biography.
African American basketball players > Europe > Biography.
African Americans > Luxembourg > Biography.
Jeunes hommes noirs américains > New York (État) > New York > Biographies.
Logement social > New York (État) > New York > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Trafiquants de drogues > New York (État) > New York > Biographies.
Élèves des preparatory schools > Massachusetts > Great Barrington > Biographies.
Joueurs de basket-ball noirs américains > Europe > Biographies.
Noirs américains > Luxembourg > Biographies.
Childhood and youth of a person
African American basketball players
African American young men
African Americans
Drug dealers
Manners and customs
Preparatory school students
Public housing
Bronx (New York, N.Y.) > Biography.
New York (N.Y.) > Biography.
Bronx (New York, N.Y.) > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Europe
Luxembourg
Massachusetts > Great Barrington (Town)
New York (State) > New York
New York (State) > New York > Bronx
Biographies
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Introduction by Mark Naison; 1 Bronx Beginnings; 2 Oil and Water: An Unlikely Marriage; 3 Spare the Rod, Spoil the Child: Family; 4 Love of God and the Lure of the Streets; 5 The South Bronx by Day and Night; 6 Lost and Found: Welcome to the '60s; 7 The Rules of the Game; 8 The Lessons of Sex; 9 Gains and Losses; 10 1963 and Me; 11 What Women Want; 12 The Summer of Unrest: 1964; 13 The Streets Are Alive: Summer of '65; 14 Hustle and Heart, on and off Court; 15 Becoming a Subject to the Bitch Queen Heroin; 16 Welcome to Hell.
  • 17 Shifting Loyalties18 The Road to The Tombs; 19 Do the Crime, Do the Time; 20 Judgment Day; 21 Free at Last! Free at Last . . .; 22 Cornwall Academy; 23 Summer Schooling; 24 Going to College; 25 College: Round II; 26 Passage to Europe; 27 Homecoming; 28 The Year of the French; 29 A New Life in Luxembourg; 30 Finding My Groove; 31 Standing on Higher Ground; Acknowledgments.

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