Daydreams and Nightmares: Reflections of a Harlem Childhood - Irving Louis Horowitz - Books - Taylor & Francis Inc - 9781412812559 - June 1, 1998
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This is the hard-edged true story of the making of a renowned sociologist. It is even more the story of a boy hustling to survive. A single playlet in the larger drama of American transformation, this candid memoir recounts the intensely personal story of a tormented youth spent in a ghetto within a ghetto: a small remnant community of Eastern European Jewish immigrants residing in predominantly black Harlem, eking out a marginal existence. The painful details of a boy&#39;s overcoming alienation and isolation in a hostile place and in an unloving family are finely drawn. This fascinating but sad memoir is somehow astonishingly uplifting: the sense of strength, self-reliance, and a life formed from movie houses, the Apollo Theater in its heyday, the Polo Grounds, Central Park, and the streets of Harlem is a lesson in the resilience of both the individual and America.</p>

159 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released June 1, 1998
ISBN13 9781412812559
Publishers Taylor & Francis Inc
Pages 159
Dimensions 150 × 220 × 10 mm   ·   363 g
Language English  

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