Joseph Bakewell: 4 books

STRIKE Joseph J Bakewell At the start of 1912 Lawrence, Massachusetts was going to hell with itself, and Amos Flanagan felt himself being pulled in its wake. Almost every aspect of the city’s life had deteriorated, and now, to top things off, the Italians were out on strike. He left the police...

Growing up in New York City before WW2, Will Mahoney attends Fordham Prep and, at the behest of a family friend and German teacher, studies that language. When the war starts, he leaves college, joins the Army, and, through the efforts of a Jewish friend, is sent to England, where he is assigned to...

Mike Martin, a former fire fighter with a disability, takes up writing and has one successful novel to his credit. One of his students, Leroy Hawkes, is a wealthy banker and chairman of the board at Cresthaven Prep, an all-boys school. He asks Mike to become a 'writer-in-residence' at the school,...

Jack Sullivan is willing to work hard for a better life than typically afforded to an Irish-American in 1917. He meets Maureen Valentine from uptown at a party. Against the advice of his family, he pursues her. They fall in love and secretly plan to marry, but Fiona, Maureen’s mother, sees Jack as an interloper, a crude intrusion on her plans for Maureen to marry into a higher class.