Daydreams and Nightmares - 2nd Edition

Name: Daydreams and Nightmares - 2nd Edition
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Daydreams and NightmaresExpanded Edition\nAuthor(s): Irving Horowitz\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138521971, 978-1138521971\nSynopsis\n*Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Biography and Autobiography \n\nThis is the story of the making of a world-famous sociologist. It is even more the story of a boy hustling to survive. Here in an astonishing and candidly written memoir by one of America's premier social scientists recounting the intensely personal story of his tormented youth in a ghetto within a ghetto. It etches the painful details of a boy's overcoming alienation and isolation in a hostile place in an unloving family.\n\nIn the 1930s a small remnant community of Eastern European Jewish immigrants still resided in predominantly black Harlem. As shopkeepers trying to make out a marginal existence, Harlem's Jews were a minority within a minority. Into this restricted world the author of this book w.