There's More to New Jersey than the Sopranos /

There's More to New Jersey than the Sopranos / / Marc Mappen.

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An American tourist in Europe stopped at a restaurant in Gdansk, Poland, and struck up a conversation with a local. "Where do you come from?" he asked. "New Jersey," she said. He smiled and replied, "Ah, Sopranos!" Even fans of that popular show, one that held viewers c...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Mappen, Marc,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.) :; 27 illustrations. 27 illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. How We Got to Where We Are
  • 2. When Prehistoric Elephants Roamed New Jersey
  • 3. New Jersey Was Paradise
  • 4. Move Over, Betsy Ross
  • 5. Good Golly, Miss Molly
  • 6. The Caldwell Murder Case
  • 7. "The Cow Chace"
  • 8. Classical Gas
  • 9. The Congressman's Cold
  • 10. The First Flight
  • 11. John Adams's Ass
  • 12. Man Eats Tomato and Lives!
  • 13. Explosion on the USS Princeton
  • 14. Two New Jersey Soldiers in Confederate Prisons
  • 15. General Grant Skips the Theater
  • 16. The Jersey General and the Secret of Custer's Last Stand
  • 17. Poor Mary Smith
  • 18. Mrs. Stanton Steps Out in Tenafly
  • 19. It's About Time
  • 20. Leprosy in the Laundry
  • 21. Stephen Crane Gets into Trouble
  • 22. The Ghostly Sphynx of Metedeconk
  • 23. Annie Oakley Lived in Nutley, New Jersey
  • 24. Scandal at the Girls' Reform School
  • 25. Alice Goes for a Drive
  • 26. Billy Sunday Came to Trenton on Monday
  • 27. Ezra Pound Insults Newark
  • 28. Cher Ami
  • 29. The Poet, the Athlete, and the War to End All Wars
  • 30. The Applejack Campaign
  • 31. Swan Song for Shoeless Joe
  • 32. The Tragic Fall of the Mexican Lindbergh
  • 33. On the Boardwalk with Al Capone
  • 34. The Morro Castle Mystery
  • 35. The Rise and Fall of a Great Detective
  • 36. Mommy Was a Commie
  • 37. The Martian Invasion
  • 38. When New Jersey Was a Nazi Target
  • 39. Teleporting Penguin Lands in New Jersey
  • 40. The Serpent in the Garden State
  • Postscript: How to Write an Encyclopedia of New Jersey in Nine Easy Years
  • Suggestions for Further Reading
  • Index
  • About the author

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