The Pushcart War

The Pushcart War

Jean Merrill
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50th Anniversary Edition
Do you know the history of the pushcart war? The REAL history? it's a story of how regular people banded together and, armed with little more than their brains and good aim defeated a mighty foe.
Not long ago the streets of New York City were smelly, smoggy, sooty, and loud. There were so many trucks making deliveries that it might take an hour for a car to travel a few blocks. People blamed the truck owners and the truck owners blamed the little wooden pushcarts that traveled the city selling everything from flowers to hot dogs. Behind closed doors the truck owners declared war on the pushcart peddlers. Carts were smashed from Chinatown to Chelsea. The peddlers didn't have money or the mayor on their side, but that didn't stop them from fighting back. They used pea shooters to blow tacks into the tires of trucks, they outwitted the police, and they marched right up to the grilles of those giant trucks and dared them to drive down...
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Año:
2014
Editorial:
New York Review Books
Idioma:
english
ISBN 10:
1590178203
ISBN 13:
9781590178201
Archivo:
EPUB, 16.93 MB
IPFS:
CID , CID Blake2b
english, 2014
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