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Allen Jones

The Rat That Got Away: A Bronx Memoir

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The Rat That Got Away is an inspiring story of one man's odyssey from the streets of the Bronx to a life as a professional athlete and banker in Europe, but it is also provides a unique vantage point on the history of the Bronx and sheds new light on a neglected period in American urban history. Allen Jones grew up in a public housing project in the South Bronx at a time-the 1950s-when that neighborhood was a place of optimism and hope for upwardly mobile Black and Latino families. Brought up in a two-parent household, with many neighborhood mentors, Jones led an almost charmed life as a budding basketball star until his teen years, when his… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Naison, Mark D. (Gespielt)
  • ISBN: 978-0-8232-3102-7
  • EAN: 9780823231027
  • Produktnummer: 4906348
  • Verlag: Empire State Ed
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
  • Seitenangabe: 193 S.
  • Masse: H23.8 cm x B16.2 cm x D0.2 cm 365 g
  • Gewicht: 365

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Allen Jones, born in the Bronx, is a manager for foreign currency exchange at Dexia BanqueInternationale at Luxembourg.

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