Acknowledgments
Prologue. Pride in Newark: A 300th Anniversary and a City on the
Brink
Part I: Rise
1. Corporation: Sheltered Puritan Village to Teeming Industrial
Hub
2. Politics to the Dogs: Southern Sympathy during the Civil War
3. Greater Newark: A Metropolis Blooms with the Dawn of the
Twentieth Century
Part II: Fall
4. Dead Weight: Prohibition, Politics, and the Growth of Organized
Crime
5. The Slums of Ten Years from Now: A City Transformed through
Postwar Urban Renewal
6. Bound to Explode: Generations of Frustration Boil Over in the
Summer of 1967
7. The Worst American City: A Transfer of Power and the Dire
1970s
Part III: Rebirth
8. Sharpe Change: A New Mayor Charts the Meandering Road to
Recovery
9. A Renaissance for the Rest of Us: Cory Booker Confronts the
Power Structure
10. Stand Up: A New Administration, a New Arena, and Some Age-Old
Struggles
Note on Sources
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
BRAD R. TUTTLE, a journalist, is the author of The Ellis Island Collection: Artifacts from the Immigrant Experience.
Finally, with Brad R. Tuttle's How Newark Became Newark, we have an
exceedingly fresh and bold historical narrative that at once
dignifies the city's complicated past and informs what must be
known about its tenacity and endurance. Not since John Cunningham's
Newark has any author contributed so mightily to our understanding
of Newark's importance to American urban history.[ATTENTION PRESS
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WHERE ELSE TO INDICATE THIS IN ALLBOOKS....THANKS, CB.]
*professor of history, Rutgers University, Newark*
An absorbing and impressive 'biography' of our city, tracing both
major influences and a strong cast of colorful, often corrupt
characters. One must be impressed with Newark's resilience given
the powerful forces Tuttle's book portrays that could have defeated
the forces for good.
*Headmaster, St. Benedict's Preparatory School, Newark, NJ*
This is the first major history of the state's largest city in more
than 40 years. Brad R. Tuttle seems determined to present a
warts-and-all portrait of [Newark]. He devotes the bulk of this
handsomely produced book to a well-researched and -written account
of Newark's long and colorful history as one of the nation's first
manufacturing hubs.
*Newark Star-Ledger*
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