Author: United States. War Production Board
Publisher:
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Category : Manufactures
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Report of War Plants and Services in Urgency Rating Bands III Thru VII.
Author: United States. War Production Board
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manufactures
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manufactures
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Selected List of Documents in the Mobilization Planning File of War Production Board Records Pertaining to Problems and Methods of Production Control Administration During World War II.
Author: United States. National Security Resources Board
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial priorities
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial priorities
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Smalltime: A Story of My Family and the Mob
Author: Russell Shorto
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393245594
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2021 Family secrets emerge as a best-selling author dives into the history of the mob in small-town America. Best-selling author Russell Shorto, praised for his incisive works of narrative history, never thought to write about his own past. He grew up knowing his grandfather and namesake was a small-town mob boss but maintained an unspoken family vow of silence. Then an elderly relative prodded: You’re a writer—what are you gonna do about the story? Smalltime is a mob story straight out of central casting—but with a difference, for the small-town mob, which stretched from Schenectady to Fresno, is a mostly unknown world. The location is the brawny postwar factory town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The setting is City Cigar, a storefront next to City Hall, behind which Russ and his brother-in-law, “Little Joe,” operate a gambling empire and effectively run the town. Smalltime is a riveting American immigrant story that travels back to Risorgimento Sicily, to the ancient, dusty, hill-town home of Antonino Sciotto, the author’s great-grandfather, who leaves his wife and children in grinding poverty for a new life—and wife—in a Pennsylvania mining town. It’s a tale of Italian Americans living in squalor and prejudice, and of the rise of Russ, who, like thousands of other young men, created a copy of the American establishment that excluded him. Smalltime draws an intimate portrait of a mobster and his wife, sudden riches, and the toll a lawless life takes on one family. But Smalltime is something more. The author enlists his ailing father—Tony, the mobster’s son—as his partner in the search for their troubled patriarch. As secrets are revealed and Tony’s health deteriorates, the book become an urgent and intimate exploration of three generations of the American immigrant experience. Moving, wryly funny, and richly detailed, Smalltime is an irresistible memoir by a masterful writer of historical narrative.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393245594
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2021 Family secrets emerge as a best-selling author dives into the history of the mob in small-town America. Best-selling author Russell Shorto, praised for his incisive works of narrative history, never thought to write about his own past. He grew up knowing his grandfather and namesake was a small-town mob boss but maintained an unspoken family vow of silence. Then an elderly relative prodded: You’re a writer—what are you gonna do about the story? Smalltime is a mob story straight out of central casting—but with a difference, for the small-town mob, which stretched from Schenectady to Fresno, is a mostly unknown world. The location is the brawny postwar factory town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The setting is City Cigar, a storefront next to City Hall, behind which Russ and his brother-in-law, “Little Joe,” operate a gambling empire and effectively run the town. Smalltime is a riveting American immigrant story that travels back to Risorgimento Sicily, to the ancient, dusty, hill-town home of Antonino Sciotto, the author’s great-grandfather, who leaves his wife and children in grinding poverty for a new life—and wife—in a Pennsylvania mining town. It’s a tale of Italian Americans living in squalor and prejudice, and of the rise of Russ, who, like thousands of other young men, created a copy of the American establishment that excluded him. Smalltime draws an intimate portrait of a mobster and his wife, sudden riches, and the toll a lawless life takes on one family. But Smalltime is something more. The author enlists his ailing father—Tony, the mobster’s son—as his partner in the search for their troubled patriarch. As secrets are revealed and Tony’s health deteriorates, the book become an urgent and intimate exploration of three generations of the American immigrant experience. Moving, wryly funny, and richly detailed, Smalltime is an irresistible memoir by a masterful writer of historical narrative.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Studies and Reports
Author: International Labour Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor movement
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor movement
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Extension Service Review
Author:
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Category : Agricultural extension work
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural extension work
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
The Packages
Digest; Review of Reviews Incorporating Literary Digest
Author:
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Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 946
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 946
Book Description
Our Common Future
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780195531916
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780195531916
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
Author: United States. Joint Chiefs of Staff
Publisher:
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description