Product Description: For more than 150 years, waves of poor immigrants flow into Passaic, a small city in New Jersey seeking jobs and a new life. The common dream of these hard working people is for their children to become educated and then successful in America...read more

Product Description: A series of true adventures is described in the life of Bob Rosenthal, one ofthe aerospace engineers who put the first man on the moon.

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Presents a definitive anthology of some of Ginsberg's last poems, written in the final years of his life, that provide a fascinating glimpse into the inner workings of the poet's mind and imagination. 30,000 first printing.