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Journeys to the Heart of Baltimore
Michael Olesker
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Description for Journeys to the Heart of Baltimore
Paperback. And a city struggles through racial convulsions, remembered by those such as John Steadman and Father Constantine Sitaris. Num Pages: 368 pages, 25, 25 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBFM; HBTB; JFSL1; WQH; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 153 x 27. Weight in Grams: 524.
In Journeys to the Heart of Baltimore, veteran journalist Michael Olesker writes of Baltimore's melting pot in all its rollicking, sentimental, good-natured, and chaotic essence. The stories come from neighborhood street corners and front stoops, playgrounds and school rooms, churches and synagogues, and families gathered around late-night kitchen tables. The D'Alesandro political dynasty comes to life here, and so do Lenny Moore and Artie Donovan of the legendary Baltimore Colts. The old East Baltimore ethnic enclaves nurture youngsters named Barbara Mikulski and Ted Venetoulis, and out of West Baltimore comes the future Afro-American newspaper publisher Jake Oliver. Journeys to the ... Read more
In Journeys to the Heart of Baltimore, veteran journalist Michael Olesker writes of Baltimore's melting pot in all its rollicking, sentimental, good-natured, and chaotic essence. The stories come from neighborhood street corners and front stoops, playgrounds and school rooms, churches and synagogues, and families gathered around late-night kitchen tables. The D'Alesandro political dynasty comes to life here, and so do Lenny Moore and Artie Donovan of the legendary Baltimore Colts. The old East Baltimore ethnic enclaves nurture youngsters named Barbara Mikulski and Ted Venetoulis, and out of West Baltimore comes the future Afro-American newspaper publisher Jake Oliver. Journeys to the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421418452
SKU
V9781421418452
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Ref
99-15
About Michael Olesker
Michael Olesker wrote a column for the Baltimore Sun for twenty-five years. He is the author of six previous books, including Michael Olesker's Baltimore: If You Live Here, You're Home, The Colts' Baltimore: A City and Its Love Affair in the 1950s, and Front Stoops in the Fifties: Baltimore Legends Come of Age.
Reviews for Journeys to the Heart of Baltimore
Olesker draws on Baltimore's diverse and often isolated and mutually hostile neighborhood, political and clerical tribes. He compiles a group portrait that is both sad and celebratory. Baltimore Sun A powerful tribute to our vast melting pot... Amid the rich metaphors and unique vernacular that are quintessentially Olesker, Baltimore's mosaic of religions and nationalities become one. Baltimore Jewish Times