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On the Irish Waterfront: The Crusader, the Movie, and the Soul of the Port of New York (Cushwa Center Studies of Catholicism in Twentieth-Century America) by James Terence Fisher is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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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.Fisher introduces readers to the real'Father Pete Barry'featured in On the Waterfront, John M.'Pete'Corridan, a crusading priest committed to winning union democracy and social justice for the port's dockworkers and their families. A Jesuit labor school instructor, not a parish priest, Corridan was on but not of Manhattan's West Side Irish waterfront. His ferocious advocacy was resisted by the very men he sought to rescue from the violence and criminality that rendered the port'a jungle, an outlaw frontier,'in the words of investigative reporter Malcolm Johnson.Driven off the waterfront, Corridan forged creative and spiritual alliances with men like Johnson and Budd Schulberg, the screenwriter who worked
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- Author
- James Terence Fisher
- Publisher
- Ithaca: Cornell University Press
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780801448041
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Economics, Fiction, Management
- Rating
- 3.64 / 5 (17 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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