Paging New Jersey

by Broderick, James F.

• ISBN13: 9780813532905
• ISBN10: 0813532906
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-07-01
• Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction	1	(6)
PART ONE THE WRITERS
Philip Freneau	7	(5)
James Fenimore Cooper	12	(5)
Mary Griffith	17	(3)
Walt Whitman	20	(7)
Mary Mapes Dodge	27	(5)
Thomas Nast	32	(5)
Mary Wilkins Freeman	37	(4)
Stephen Crane	41	(5)
Albert Payson Terhune	46	(4)
William Carlos Williams	50	(3)
Joyce Kilmer	53	(5)
Allen Ginsberg	58	(4)
Mary Higgins Clark	62	(3)
Toni Morrison	65	(6)
Amiri Baraka	71	(5)
Joyce Carol Oates	76	(3)
Peter Benchley	79	(5)
Anna Quindlen	84	(7)
PART TWO THE BOOKS
Cheaper by the Dozen	91	(4)
Goodbye, Columbus	95	(4)
The Pine Barrens	99	(5)
Eddie and the Cruisers	104	(5)
Jersey Luck	109	(3)
Rosamund's Vision	112	(4)
Laying Down in Law	116	(4)
One for the Money	120	(3)
Our Guys	123	(4)
Lost Legends of New Jersey	127	(8)
PART THREE THE HISTORY
Searching for Captain Kidd's Treasure	135	(6)
Burr, Hamilton, and the Duel of History in Weehawken	141	(7)
The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping	148	(7)
The Hindenburg Disaster	155	(7)
The Trials of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter	162	(9)
PART FOUR A LITERARY MISCELLANY
Mobbed in New Jersey	171	(8)
On the (Paper) Trail of the New Jersey Devil	179	(6)
Dodge Poetry Festival	185	(5)
The New Jersey Literary Hall of Fame	190	(4)
Stages of Greatness: A Survey of the History of Theater in New Jersey	194	(6)
Reaching Critical Mass in the Garden State	200	(7)
Stoned in New Jersey	207	(4)
Index	211