Brooklyn Gang - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Brooklyn Gang write by Bruce Davidson. This book was released on 1998. Brooklyn Gang available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "In 1959, Bruce Davidson read about the teenage gangs of New York City. Connecting with a social worker to make initial contact with a gang in Brooklyn called The Jokers, Davidson became a daily observer and photographer of this alienated youth culture. The Fifties are often considered passive and pale by our standards of urban reality, but Davidson's photographs prove otherwise. Nearly 70 sheet-fed gravure plates show images of tough people, tough lives, tough lovers, all trying to be cool. They are followed by a short recollection by the photographer and a lengthier interview with Bengie, a surviving gang member, who is now a drug counselor."--Magnum Photo.
The Brooklyn Thrill-Kill Gang and the Great Comic Book Scare of the 1950s
The Brooklyn Thrill-Kill Gang and the Great Comic Book Scare of the 1950s - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Brooklyn Thrill-Kill Gang and the Great Comic Book Scare of the 1950s write by Mariah Adin. This book was released on 2014-12-09. The Brooklyn Thrill-Kill Gang and the Great Comic Book Scare of the 1950s available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What caused four recently bar mitzvahed middle-class youths to go on a crime spree of assault and murder in 1954? This book provides a compelling narrative retelling of the boys, their crimes, and a U.S. culture obsessed with juvenile delinquency. After ongoing months of daily headlines about gang shootouts, stomp-killings, and millions of dollars worth of vandalism, by the summer of 1954, America had had enough of juvenile delinquency. It was in this environment that 18-year-old Jack Koslow and the other three teenage members of the Brooklyn Thrill Killers committed their heinous crimes and achieved notoriety. The Brooklyn Thrill-Kill Gang and the Great Comic Book Scare of the 1950s exposes the underbelly of America's mid-century, the terrible price of assimilation, the uncomfortable bedfellows of comic books and juvenile delinquency, and the dystopia already in bloom amongst American youth well before the 1960s. Readers will be engrossed and horrified by the tale of the Brooklyn Thrill-Kill Gang whose shocking, front-page story could easily have been copy-pasted from today's online news sites. Author Mariah Adin takes readers along for a breathtaking moment-by-moment retelling of the crime spree, the subsequent interrogations, and the dramatic courtroom showdown, interspersed with expository chapters on juvenile delinquency, America's Jewish community in the post-Holocaust period, and the anti-comics movement. This book serves to merge the history of juvenile delinquency with that of the Great Comic Book Scare, highlights the assimilation of immigrants into America's white mainstream gone wrong, and complicates our understanding of America's "Golden Age."
Brooklyn Gang
Brooklyn Gang - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Brooklyn Gang write by Bruce Davidson. This book was released on 1998. Brooklyn Gang available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The reproductions and layout are superb, rich and textured, and the accompanying text is illuminating ...
The Gangs of New York
The Gangs of New York - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Gangs of New York write by Herbert Asbury. This book was released on 1928. The Gangs of New York available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Bobby's Book
Bobby's Book - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bobby's Book write by Emily Davidson. This book was released on 2012-10-30. Bobby's Book available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1998, at the very moment that a publisher had approached Bruce Davidson about a book of his 1959 Brooklyn Gang photographs, former gang leader Bobby Powers unexpectedly telephoned the Davidsons. Over the next decade, Emily Davidson maintained an ongoing conversation with Powers in order to bring to light his struggle to overcome his drug-ridden and violent past and to inspire others with his example. Through the words and reflections of the former drug addict and petty criminal, this book relates the long, agonizing journey from youthful urban violence and despair to the life of a committed and generous professional. Beginning in a working-class Brooklyn neighborhood in the mid 1950s where alcohol abuse and poverty were rampant, Bobby Powers went from being an illiterate gang leader and notorious drug dealer to a destroyed individual who had lost everything, including family members, close friends, and himself, all presented in his own words and in grim detail in this book. At a critical turning point in his life, recognizing the threat of his behaviors to survival, he entered detox and embarked on the arduous path to recovery and self-understanding. This process involved not only acknowledging and coming to terms with the injuries he had inflicted on his children and others, but also asking for their forgiveness. Having achieved a new way of life as a responsible and caring adult, Bobby Powers is today, at 69, a nationally respected drug addiction counselor who has aided a wide spectrum of people, including former gang members. His story represents a brutal and inspiring lesson in human frailty, degradation, and transformation.
