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How Newark Became
Newark
Price: $26.95
Subtitle: The Rise, Fall, and
Rebirth of an American City
Author:
Brad R. Tuttle
Subject: Regional,
History,
American
Studies
Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4490-8
Pages:
352 pages, 21
illustrations
Publication Date: March 2009
Rivergate BooksTM
Rutgers University Alumni Association & Rutgers
University Libraries, John Cotton Dana Library Presents Brad R.
Tuttle
September 23,
6-8 p.m. & September 24, 10 - 11:20 a.m.
John Cotton Dana Library, Dana Room
No charge for events however, advance registration is required.
Call Bonnie Kenselaar at 973-353-5242 for more information.
Praise for How Newark Became Newark
"Finally, with Brad
R. Tuttle's How Newark Became Newark, we have an exceedingly fresh and
bold historical narrative that at once dignifies the city's complicated
past and informs what must be known about its tenacity and endurance.
Not since John Cunningham's Newark has any author contributed so
mightily to our understanding of Newark's importance to American urban
history."—Clement Alexander Price, professor of history, Rutgers
University, Newark
"An absorbing and impressive 'biography' of our city, tracing both
major influences and a strong cast of colorful, often corrupt
characters. One must be impressed with Newark's resilience given the
powerful forces Tuttle's book portrays that could have defeated the
forces for good."—Fr. Edwin D. Leahy, O.S.B., Headmaster, St.
Benedict's Preparatory School, Newark, NJ
"This is the first major history of the state's largest city in more
than 40 years. Brad R. Tuttle seems determined to present a
warts-and-all portrait of [Newark]. He devotes the bulk of this
handsomely produced book to a well-researched and -written account of
Newark's long and colorful history as one of the nation's first
manufacturing hubs."—Tom Mackin, Newark Star-Ledger
Description:
For the first time in
forty years, the story of one of America’s most maligned cities is told
in all its grit and glory. With its open-armed embrace of
manufacturing, Newark, New Jersey, rode the Industrial Revolution to
great prominence and wealth that lasted well into the twentieth
century. In the postwar years, however, Newark experienced a perfect
storm of urban troubles—political corruption, industrial abandonment,
white
flight, racial conflict, crime, poverty. Cities across the United
States found themselves in similar predicaments, yet Newark stands out
as an exceptional case. Its saga reflects the rollercoaster ride of
Everycity U.S.A., only with a steeper rise, sharper turns, and a much
more dramatic plunge.
How Newark Became Newark is a
fresh, unflinching popular history that spans the city’s epic
transformation from a tiny Puritan village into a manufacturing
powerhouse, on to its desperate struggles in the twentieth century and
beyond. After World War II, unrest mounted as the minority community
was increasingly marginalized, leading to the wrenching civic
disturbances of the 1960s. Though much of the city was crippled for
years, How Newark Became Newark
is also a story of survival and hope. Today, a real estate revival and
growing population are signs that Newark is once again in ascendance.
About the Authors:
BRAD R. TUTTLE, a journalist, is the author of The Ellis Island Collection: Artifacts
from the Immigrant Experience.
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