Jerome Weidman

A New York Times–bestselling author’s poignant novel of a boy’s coming of age on Manhattan’s Lower East Side in the 1920s. When Benny Kramer’s father came to the United States, he was hungry, broke, and ignorant. Handed a banana and told it was “American food,” he scarfed it down, peel and all. By the time he died, he was no richer, but much wiser, and everything he learned he imparted to his son. Growing up on New York’s Lower East Side between the wars, Benny’s life was just as chaotic as his neighborhood. How many young boys have seen a man decapitated by a horse? How many know blacksmiths who got tangled up in a multiple homicide? How many win an elocution contest, only to find out it was rigged by the mob? For Benny, these are everyday events, and he remembers them with the biting wit that made Jerome Weidman one of the most beloved novelists of his day. This ebook features a foreword by Alistair Cooke.

A Novel of How It Was

Fourth Street East

Jerry Bock

Fiorello! is a musical about New York City mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, a reform Republican, which debuted on Broadway in 1959, and tells the story of how LaGuardia took on the Tammany Hall political machine.

A New Musical

Fiorello

George Abbott

Sheldon Harnick

The Broadhurst Theatre, Robert E. Griffith and Harold S. Prince present "Fiorello!," a new musical, book by Jerome Weidman and George Abbott, music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, with Tom Bosley, Patricia Wilson, Ellen Hanley, Howard Da Silva, Mark Dawson, Nathaniel Frey, and Pat Stanley, choreography by Peter Gennaro, scenery, costumes and lighting by William and Jean Eckart, musical direction Hal Hastings, orchestrations by Irwin Kostal, dance music arranged by Jack Elliott, hair styles by Ronald De Mann, production directed by George Abbott.

Fiorello!

Novel in the form of letters to her mother from an ex stenographer during a trip to England with her husband.

A Novel

Your Daughter Iris

The Center of the Action

The Captain's Tiger

Meteoric rise to political eminence, as a Roosevelt intimate, of an ambitious social worker - as seen by the New York girl who meets him again in wartime London.

Before You Go

I'll Never Go There Any More

Traveler's Cheque

Benny Kramer returns, this time turning to one of his oldest friends to save the life of Kramer's son Though his trip from New York to Philadelphia is for business, Benny Kramer has also planned a rendezvous--not with a mistress, but with one of the city's finest doctors. Kramer plans to enlist him in a noble purpose: keeping his son out of Vietnam. The doctor won't provide this service to just anyone, but he and Benny have a mutual friend in the incomparable Sebastian Roon. Benny and Seb have been friends since the Depression, when they shared countless adventures across New York's Lower East Side. Now Benny's counting on that friendship to ensure the same life of endless possibilities for his son. This ebook features a foreword by Alistair Cooke.

Jerome Weidman

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