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: Jones, Allen, 1950-
Otros Autores: Naison, Mark D., 1946-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2009.
Edición:1st ed.
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.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
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
Autobiographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Bronx Beginnings
  • Oil and Water: An Unlikely Marriage
  • Spare the Rod, Spoil the Child: Family
  • The Love of God and the Lure of the Streets
  • The South Bronx by Day and Night
  • Lost and Found: Welcome to the '60s
  • The Rules of the Game
  • The Lessons of Sex
  • Gains and Losses
  • 1963 and Me
  • What Women Want
  • The Summer of Unrest: 1964
  • The Streets Are Alive: Summer of '65
  • Hustle and Heart, on and off Court
  • Becoming a Subject to the Bitch Queen Heroin
  • Welcome to Hell
  • Shifting Loyalties
  • The Road to The Tombs
  • Do the Crime, Do the Time
  • Judgment Day
  • Free at Last! Free at Last ...
  • Cornwall Academy
  • Summer Schooling
  • Going to College
  • College: Round II
  • Passage to Europe
  • Homecoming
  • The Year of the French
  • A New Life in Luxembourg
  • Finding My Groove
  • Standing on Higher Ground.

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