The real story of gangsters, politicians, longshoremen, union leaders, and Catholic priests that informed the classic 1954 film, On the Waterfront.
James T. Fisher is Professor of Theology and American Studies, Fordham University. He is author of Communion of Immigrants: A History of Catholics in America, Dr. America: The Lives of Thomas A. Dooley, 1927¿1961, and The Catholic Counterculture in America, 1933-1962. Visit James T. Fisher's blog at: irishwaterfront.wordpress.com.