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Wed 02 Feb 2010Tale of a crusader who took on the Irish criminal sharks 'On the Waterfront'
BOOK OF THE DAY:On the Irish Waterfront: the Crusader, the Movie, and the Soul of the Port of New YorkBy James T Fisher Cornell University Press 372pp, $29.95
IMMORTALISED IN the 1954 Elia Kazan film On the Waterfront, the true story of that part of the port of New York which lies on either side of the Hudson River from Manhattan’s west side to Hudson County, New Jersey – aka the Irish waterfront – might beggar Hollywood itself.
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