Gowanus: A Novel of Brooklyn Past and Further Past

Literature & Fiction

Murphy, Robert E.

Genre Fiction

Long Meadow Books

By the mid-1950s, New York had been the unrivaled capital of America’s national pastime for a century, a place where baseball was followed with truly fanatical fervor. The city’s three teams—the New York Yankees, the New York Giants, and the Brooklyn Dodgers—had over the previous decade rewarded their fans’ devotion with stellar performances: from 1947 to 1957, one or more of these teams had played in the World Series every year but one. Yet on opening day 1958, the Giants and the Dodgers were gone. Their owners, Walter O’Malley and Horace Stoneham, had ripped them away from their longtime home and from the hearts of millions of devoted and passionate fans and taken the teams to California. 
How did it happen? Who was to blame? 
The relocation of the Giants and the Dodgers, an event that transcended sports and altered the landscape of New York City, has never been addressed with the depth, detail, and insight offered here by Robert E. Murphy. As informed as it is entertaining, After Many a Summer is rich in baseball lore, civic history, and the wheeling and dealing, alliances and betrayals, and sharp-elbowed machinations of big-city business and politics.

After Many a Summer: The Passing of the Giants and Dodgers and a Golden Age in New York Baseball

History

Americas

University Of Nebraska Press

The U.S. Navy asked the RAND Corporation to develop a set of lessons learned from previous submarine programs that could help inform future program managers. This volume presents lessons from three U.S. submarine programs. The RAND team looked at how the programs were managed, the issues that affected management decisions, and the outcomes of those decisions. An overarching lesson from the three programs is the importance of program stability.

Learning from Experience: Lessons from the U.S. Navy's Ohio, Seawolf, and Virginia Submarine Programs (Volume 2)

Schank, John F.

Arena, Mark V.

Lee, Gordon T.

Ip, Cesse

Kamarck, Kristy N.

Lacroix, Frank W.

Australia & Oceania

RAND Corporation

This volume presents a set of lessons learned from the United Kingdom's Astute submarine program that could help inform future program managers. Designing and building a submarine requires careful management and oversight and a delegation of roles and responsibilities that recognizes which party—the shipbuilder or the government—is best positioned to manage risks.

Learning from Experience: Lessons from the United Kingdom's Astute Submarine Program (Volume 3)

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