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Book SynopsisWith its open-armed embrace of manufacturing, Newark, New Jersey, rode the Industrial Revolution to great prominence that lasted well into the 20th century. This title presents a history that spans the city's epic transformation from a tiny Puritan village into a manufacturing powerhouse, on to its desperate struggles in the 20th century.
Trade ReviewFinally, 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.[ATTENTION PRESS MEMBERS: PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT THIS BLURB APPEARS FIRST WHEN BOTH BLURBS ARE LISTED IN CATALOG, ON JACKET, OR ANYWHERE ELSE. NOT SURE WHERE ELSE TO INDICATE THIS IN ALLBOOKS....THANKS, CB.] -- 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 *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Prologue. Pride in Newark: A 300th Anniversary and a City on the Brink
Part I: Rise
1. Corporation: Sheltered Puritan Village to Teeming Industrial Hub
2. Politics to the Dogs: Southern Sympathy during the Civil War
3. Greater Newark: A Metropolis Blooms with the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
Part II: Fall
4. Dead Weight: Prohibition, Politics, and the Growth of Organized Crime
5. The Slums of Ten Years from Now: A City Transformed through Postwar Urban Renewal
6. Bound to Explode: Generations of Frustration Boil Over in the Summer of 1967
7. The Worst American City: A Transfer of Power and the Dire 1970s
Part III: Rebirth
8. Sharpe Change: A New Mayor Charts the Meandering Road to Recovery
9. A Renaissance for the Rest of Us: Cory Booker Confronts the Power Structure
10. Stand Up: A New Administration, a New Arena, and Some Age-Old Struggles
Note on Sources
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
