Nelson Johnson: 9 books

THE TRUE STORY THAT INSPIRED THE HBO SERIES Through most of the 20th century, Atlantic City was controlled by a powerful partnership of local politicians and racketeers. Funded by payoffs from gambling rooms, bars, and brothels, this corrupt alliance reached full bloom during the reign of Enoch...

Nelson Johnson frequently stopped working on Boardwalk Empire to wrestle with how best to handle the thorny subject of race. But he persisted, and the result was a chapter"A Plantation by the Sea"that inspired this powerful sequel. In The Northside, Johnson brings the untold story of Atlantic City's...

La verdadera historia que inspiró la serie de TV. A lo largo de gran parte del siglo XX, Atlantic City estuvo controlada por una poderosa asociación de políticos y mafiosos locales. Fundada gracias a los beneficios de los salones de juego, bares y burdeles, esta alianza corrupta alcanzó...

New Jersey’s legal system was plagued with injustices from the time the system was established through the mid-twentieth century. In Battleground New Jersey, historian and author of Boardwalk Empire, Nelson Johnson chronicles reforms to the system through the dramatic stories of Arthur T. Vanderbilt—the...

The Blue, the Gray, and the Green is one of only a handful of books to apply an environmental history approach to the Civil War. This book explores how nature—disease, climate, flora and fauna, and other factors—affected the war and also how the war shaped Americans’ perceptions, understanding,...

This anthology of black writers traces the evolution of African-American perspectives throughout American history, from the early years of slavery to the end of the 20th century. The essays, manifestos, interviews, and documents assembled here, contextualized with critical commentaries from Marable...

Curricular peer mentoring is a programmatic approach to enrich student learning and engagement in postsecondary courses in which instructors welcome a more experienced undergraduate student into a credit course they are teaching. The student then serves as peer mentor to the students enrolled. Peer...

This book introduces contemporary Buddhists from across Asia and from various walks of life. Eschewing traditional hagiographies, the editors have collected sixty-six profiles of individuals who would be excluded from most Buddhist histories and ethnographies. In addition to monks and nuns, readers...

With souls ordained and purposed by God, yoked are the literary souls of Jeanine and Chevel.  Their collaborative achievement created this fusion of alluring and captivating words.  Dual balladries of heartfelt words lyrically inked on paper with the vision of letting you peruse some of their inner...