Journeys to the heart of Baltimore
By: Michael Olesker.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
Subjects: Pluralism (Social sciences) -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- Anecdotes; Baltimore (Md.) -- Ethnic relations -- Anecdotes; Baltimore (Md.) -- Race relations -- Anecdotes; Baltimore (Md.) -- Biography
Genres: Anecdotes.; Biography.
Description: "In Journeys to the Heart of Baltimore, veteran journalist Michael Olesker writes of the American melting pot - particularly Baltimore's - in all its rollicking, sentimental, good-natured, and chaotic features. 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.".

""Think of this as a love letter across the generations," Olesker writes. The D'Alesandro political dynasty comes to life here, as do the legendary Baltimore Colts Lenny Moore and Artie Donovan. 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1 "DON'T GIVE IN TO THE BASTARDS" 1; title: 2 THE AMERICANIZATION OF ZLOTTE 18; title: 3 DANCING ON THE ROOF 27; title: 4 TIMES SQUARE 45; title: 5 THE HOME MOVIE 60; title: 6 "AMERICAN WAS WHAT YOU SAW AT THE MOVIES" 74; title: 7 SINATRA AND DIMAG 87; title: 8 THE MAN IN THE CLOSET 99; title: 9 MICHELE AND JAKE 116; title: 10 "YOU DO NOT HAVE TO MELT TO BE AN AMERICAN" 129; title: 11 CROSSING PARK CIRCLE 147; title: 12 LENNY AND ARTIE 167; title: 13 TWENTY-THREE NATIONS 187; title: 14 RAY CHARLES IN THE CAFETERIA 201; title: 15 CITY COLLEGE 221; title: 16 THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT 243; title: 17 THE RIOTS 263; title: 18 "YOU GOTTA MARRY IN THE FAITH" 287; title: 19 GOD IN PROTECTIVE CUSTODY 302; title: 20 O'MALLEY'S MARCH 324.