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An Unlikely Union tells the dramatic story of how two of America's
largest ethnic groups learned to love and laugh with each other
after decades of animosity. They came from the poorest parts of
Ireland and Italy and met as rivals on the sidewalks of New York.
Beginning in the nineteenth century, the Irish and Italians clashed
in the Catholic Church, on the waterfront, at construction sites,
and in the streets. Then they made peace through romance, marrying
each other on a large scale in the years after World War II. The
vibrant cast of characters features saints such as Mother Frances
X. Cabrini, who stood up to the Irish American archbishop of New
York when he tried to send her back to Italy, and sinners like Al
Capone, who left his Irish wife home the night he shot it out with
Brooklyn's Irish mob. The book also highlights the torrid love
affair between radical labor organizers Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and
Carlo Tresca; the alliance between Italian American gangster Paul
Kelly and Tammany's "Big Tim" Sullivan; heroic detective Joseph
Petrosino's struggle to be accepted in the Irish-run NYPD; and the
competition between Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby to become the
country's top male vocalist. In this engaging history of the Irish
and Italians, veteran New York City journalist and professor Paul
Moses offers a classic American story of competition, cooperation,
and resilience. At a time of renewed fear of immigrants, An
Unlikely Union reminds us that Americans are able to absorb
tremendous social change and conflict-and come out the better for
it.
The unknown inside story of the NYPD's Italian-born detectives who
fought both powerful gangsters and the deeply ingrained prejudice
against their own beloved immigrant community The story begins in
Sicily, on Friday, March 12, 1909, at 8:45 p.m. Three gunshots
thundered in the night, and then a fourth. Two men fled, and
investigators soon discovered who they had killed: Giuseppe
Petrosino, the legendary American detective whose exploits in New
York were celebrated even in Italy. The Italian Squad, by veteran
New York City journalist and historian Paul Moses, explores the
lives of the nationally celebrated detectives who followed in the
slain Petrosino's footsteps as leaders of the New York City
investigative squad: Anthony Vachris, Charles Corrao, and Michael
Fiaschetti. Drawing on new primary sources such as private diaries
and city, state, and federal documents, this dramatic narrative
history follows the Italian Squad across the first two decades of
the twentieth century as its detectives battled increasingly
powerful gangsters, political obstacles and deeply ingrained
prejudice against their own beloved Italian immigrant community.
Vachris, Corrao, and Fiaschetti became, like Petrosino, famous for
meting out tough justice to criminals who comprised the "Black
Hand." Beyond trying to prevent horrific crimes-nighttime bombings
in crowded tenements, kidnappings that targeted children at play,
gangland shootings that killed innocent bystanders-the Italian
Squad commanders hoped to persuade society of what they knew for
themselves: that their fellow immigrant Italians, so often
maligned, would make good American citizens. In this explosive
story, Moses carefully strips away the mythology that has always
enveloped the Italian Squad and offers instead a nuanced portrait
of brave but flawed men who fought the good fight for their people
and their city.
An Unlikely Union tells the dramatic story of how two of America's
largest ethnic groups learned to love and laugh with each other
after decades of animosity. They came from the poorest parts of
Ireland and Italy and met as rivals on the sidewalks of New York.
Beginning in the nineteenth century, the Irish and Italians clashed
in the Catholic Church, on the waterfront, at construction sites,
and in the streets. Then they made peace through romance, marrying
each other on a large scale in the years after World War II. The
vibrant cast of characters features saints such as Mother Frances
X. Cabrini, who stood up to the Irish American archbishop of New
York when he tried to send her back to Italy, and sinners like Al
Capone, who left his Irish wife home the night he shot it out with
Brooklyn's Irish mob. The book also highlights the torrid love
affair between radical labor organizers Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and
Carlo Tresca; the alliance between Italian American gangster Paul
Kelly and Tammany's "Big Tim" Sullivan; heroic detective Joseph
Petrosino's struggle to be accepted in the Irish-run NYPD; and the
competition between Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby to become the
country's top male vocalist. In this engaging history of the Irish
and Italians, veteran New York City journalist and professor Paul
Moses offers a classic American story of competition, cooperation,
and resilience. At a time of renewed fear of immigrants, An
Unlikely Union reminds us that Americans are able to absorb
tremendous social change and conflict-and come out the better for
it.
The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes
over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American
and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists,
including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames
Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story,
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal
Treatises includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books,
works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and other works
of the most influential writers of their time. It is of great value
to researchers of domestic and international law, government and
politics, legal history, business and economics, criminology and
much more.++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++Harvard Law School
Libraryocm21980661Reprinted from The National Corporation
Reporter.Chicago: United States Corporation Bureau, 1900. 15 p.; 26
cm.
Addressing internal displacement and refugee concerns are
challenging processes. While IDPs' main interests is to see a
complete end to displacement, the means to achieve theses is often
at the discretion of state authorities whose motivations may not
easily be determined. While State authorities should bear the
primary protection responsibility including ending the conflict,
the conflict in Northern Uganda dragged on far too long. Resolving
this conflict in part has been through TJ mechanisms however, not
much rerearch have attempted to address the concerns of
displacement and sustainable peace within the TJ Development nexus.
This book which is based on research on the Northern Uganda
Conflict argues that sustainable peace is not only contributed to
by linking the fields of TJ and development but also by linking TJ
mechanisms to each other in a meaningful and context- sensitive
way. The three Durable Solution options for IDPs linked to
appropriate TJ mechanism has proven successful in addressing the
concerns for IDPs in Northern Uganda in comparison to direct
military confrontations.
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