Taylor Trade Publishing
Pages: 256
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Trim: 7 x 10
978-1-58979-950-9 • Hardback • November 2015 • $29.95 • (£22.99)
978-1-58979-951-6 • eBook • November 2015 • $14.99 • (£11.99)
Subjects: History / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV),
Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / General,
History / United States / 20th Century,
Social Science / American Studies,
History / Oral History
Myrna Katz Frommer and Harvey Frommer met as undergraduates at New York University. Coauthors of five critically acclaimed oral histories, the Frommers are noted cultural historians, widely published travel writers and professors in the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program at Dartmouth College. Their home base is Lyme, New Hampshire.
It Happened in the Catskills
“Unexpurgated tales of heartache and laughter. This book will touch all who read it.” —Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara
“[An] exuberant oral history [and] unqualified treat.” —Publishers Weekly
“The definitive story of a time and place that I hope will never end.” —Regis Philbin
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It Happened in Brooklyn
“This paean to a bygone place . . . throbs with life and affection” —Publishers Weekly
“All of us need this beautiful book.” —New York Daily News
“The genuine flavor of Brooklyn, reads as though one were sitting in on a reunion listening to people put together a vanished past.” —Los Angeles Times
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Growing up Jewish in America
In another popular history, the Frommers have produced a breezy but informative look at Jewish childhood in twentieth-century America.” —Library Journal
“[A] thought-provoking amalgam.” —Booklist
“One comes away from this book with a heightened sense of how wide the American Jewish spectrum can be.”—Washington Post
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It Happened on Broadway
“The Frommers haven’t written a history of Broadway. They’ve woven one from the recollections of an all-star cast.” —The San Francisco Examiner
“ The heady excitement of a blockbuster show. [The] hundreds of magical, informative . . . never boring stories the Frommers have gathered demonstrate what it took to fill those seats.” —Publishers Weekly
“A fascinating look at Broadway from different perspectives.” –Library Journal
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It Happened in Manhattan
“Oral history, garrulous nostalgia, and great fun for those who recall the days of Tin Pan Alley and three baseball teams in one small, favored place." –Kirkus Reviews
“Delightful” - -New York Daily News
“A pastiche, an impressionistic account of life in Manhattan over three fateful decades” –City Review
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