Book description
What if the world of the old New York waterfront was as violent and mob-controlled as it appears in Hollywood movies? Well, it really was, and the story of its downfall, told here in high style by Nathan Ward, is the original New York mob story. "New York Sun" reporter…
Why read it?
1 author picked Dark Harbor as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
A suspenseful account of the corrupt underworld centered on the harbor where Paul O’Dwyer worked on the docks as a law student at St. John’s and in the criminal courthouse as a young attorney cutting his teeth during the Great Depression.
It shows the often claustrophobic social and political world from which Paul soon made his escape to the more cosmopolitan Manhattan, beginning his career as a lawyer known in part for defending union leaders, lawyers, and activists targeted for exercising their First Amendment rights in the reactionary Cold War and Vietnam War eras to come.
From Robert's list on era that influenced attorney Paul O'Dwyer.
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