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Leadership on the federal bench the craft and activism of Jack Weinstein / by Morris, Jeffrey Brandon, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…"All the facts of real life revealed in our work" : the "job" of a federal district judge -- The years before appointment to the bench, 1921-67 -- The political and legal environment within which Jack Weinstein judged : the nation and the district, 1967-2007 -- Characteristics of Jack Weinstein's judging -- "An activist seeker of troublesome issues" : Jack Weinstein's first decade on the bench, 1967-76 -- "Making the unequal equal through the alchemy of the law :" growing renown, 1977-86 -- "Imaginative reformer" and "vindicator of the ideal of a judge" : Jack Weinstein's work, 1987-96 -- "Under the blindfold, does justice weep?" …”
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The strike that changed New York blacks, whites, and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville crisis / by Podair, Jerald E., 1953-

Subjects: “…Ocean Hill-Brownsville Demonstration School District (New York, N.Y.)…”
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Inside Ocean Hill-Brownsville : a teacher's education, 1968-69 / by Isaacs, Charles S., 1945-

Subjects: “…Ocean Hill-Brownsville Demonstration School District (New York, N.Y.)…”
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The accidental playground Brooklyn waterfront narratives of the undesigned and unplanned / by Campo, Daniel

Subjects: “…Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal.…”
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The Ocean-Hill Brownsville conflict intellectual struggles between Blacks and Jews at mid-century / by Harris, Glen Anthony, 1964-

Subjects: “…Ocean Hill-Brownsville Demonstration School District (New York, N.Y.)…”
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City Building on the Eastern Frontier : Sorting the New Nineteenth-Century City / by Shaw, Diane, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Vernacular urbanism and the mercantile network of new cities -- Planning the sorted city : commercial, industrial, civic -- Building the sorted city : the three epitome districts -- Refining the sorted city : appearances in the commercial district -- Gentrifying the sorted city : social sorting in the commercial district -- The Reynolds Arcade and Athenaeum -- Transportation and the changing streetscape.…”
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City Building on the Eastern Frontier : Sorting the New Nineteenth-Century City / by Shaw, Diane, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Vernacular urbanism and the mercantile network of new cities -- Planning the sorted city : commercial, industrial, civic -- Building the sorted city : the three epitome districts -- Refining the sorted city : appearances in the commercial district -- Gentrifying the sorted city : social sorting in the commercial district -- The Reynolds Arcade and Athenaeum -- Transportation and the changing streetscape.…”
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William Almon Wheeler : political star of the north country / by Hallas, Herbert C., 1937-

Table of Contents: “…Tragedy in Malone -- The making of a "cultivated" man -- Love and the new district attorney -- "Here lies an honest man" -- "Old hunkerism" is dead -- A "mere act of justice" -- "Grinding" it out in Albany -- A pen "dipped in gall" -- An early morning knock on the door -- Suddenly, a "junior partner" -- A sporting gentleman gets the itch -- "True to our trust, true to ourselves, and true to the truth" -- "Ho! …”
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