On the Irish waterfront
Subtitle: the crusader, the movie, and the soul of the port of New York
By: James T. Fisher.
Series: Cushwa Center studies of Catholicism in twentieth-century America; Cushwa Center studies of Catholicism in twentieth-century America
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9780801448041
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Missions -- Hudson River Region (N.Y. and N.J.); On the waterfront (Motion picture); Stevedores -- Hudson River Region (N.Y. and N.J.); Irish Americans -- Employment -- Hudson River Region (N.Y. and N.J.); Port districts -- Corrupt practices -- Hudson River Region (N.Y. and N.J.); Church work with the working class -- Hudson River Region (N.Y. and N.J.)
Description: "Site of the world's busiest and most lucrative harbor throughout the first half of the twentieth century, the Port of New York was also the historic preserve of Irish American gangsters, politicians, longshoremen's union leaders, and powerful Roman Catholic pastors. This is the demimonde depicted to stunning effect in Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront (1954) and into which James T. Fisher takes readers in this remarkable and engaging historical account of the classic film's backstory."--Inside jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Chelsea's King Joe; title: The boss; title: Becoming Mr. Big; title: The longshoreman's grandson; title: A labor priest in the Catholic metropolis; title: The crusader; title: Covering the waterfront; title: The Hollywood prince; title: Meeting across the river; title: Priest and worker; title: An intimacy with violence; title: A season for testimony; title: "The hook"; title: Good citizens; title: Saving the picture; title: The mile square city's moment; title: The priest in the movie; title: "The corruption goes deep"; title: The poetry of success.