ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1959
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Harry Golden - Only in America
Permabooks, 1959
309 str.
meki povez
stanje: dobro
Foreword by Carl Sandburg

If you read only one book this year you`ll want it to be `Only in America` because Only in America could there be a Harry Golden - a cigar-chomping, scalpel-wielding individualist who loves people and has become the author of this No.1 best-seller. And Only in America could this happen to a book which deflates sham with rapier wit - routs prejudice with a laugh from the belly - casts an eye on womanhood from Cleopatra to Debbie Reynolds - gives a `recipe` for chopped chicken liver and schmaltz - reveals there are no homely girls - tells how to get a husband - describes buying a winter suit on the hottest day of the year - and contains laughter, warmth, wit, wisdom and the indescribable personality of Harry Golden on every wonderful page.

WHEN HAVE YOU SEEN REVIEWS SUCH AS THESE?
`Harry Golden writes what he wants to about anything he wants to. He writes about historical events, ancient and modern, with freshness of view-point and a vigorous enthusiasm. He loves people and books and America. He tells us things we don`t know, he gives a new look to things we do know, and he makes us think about things that we know but have avoided thinking about. It`s nice to live in the same country with him.`
-MAURICE DOLDIER, New York Herald Tribune
`What a writer! Whatever your faith may be, he is writing to you as a human being.`
-EMERSON PRICE, Cleveland Press
`ONLY IN AMERICA will go a long way toward restoring one`s faith in the human race.`
-WILLIAM Du Bots, The New York Times

Contents
FOREWORD BY Carl Sandburg
INTRODUCTION
1. DEATH AND THE CALL GIRL
Why I never bawl out a waitress
A lesson in bread
The show must go on!
Getting paid for her `favors`
Causerie on death
How to get a husband
I am now kosher
Fathers and sons
A true short, short story
Southern gentlemen
Why other planets have not contacted us
Wink at some homely girl
Sex morals on the Lower East Side
It was better when papa was the boss
America on a huge breast binge
We are not alone
Many widows live in college towns
The landlord
The shame of nakedness
Parents work night and day
Why do they climb the mountains?
First day of school
2. WE TOAST THE JOURNEY-FOR TWO CENTS PLAIN
The poets were paid
Buying a suit on the East Side
For two cents plain
My Uncle Koppel and free enterprise
Marriages were made in heaven
Two-for-a-nickel movies
The passion of Morris Kaplan
The Fifth Avenue Bus-and America
The greenhorns slept on the `lunch`
The `suckers` escaped
Little girls on the East Side
The Triangle fire
The scaleman
Ess, ess, mein kindt
My mother and God
You paid fifty cents and kissed the bride
The rent
2,500 handsome Jewish policemen
Customers for the dry-goods store
This little sex offender went to market
You couldn`t beat this fellow
Four cents an hour
Four dollars a week
Raising pigeons
Everybody got paid but the doctor
3. DOES IT SELL FLOUR?
Why women live longer than men
Are things too good?
The Methodist `Guardian of Israel`
I miss the holy men of the 1930`s
Wishing you long years
Lil ole Tin-Pan Alley
Boiled beef flanken comes to Charlotte
Does it sell flour?
The `Organization Men`
You never saw a Yenkee?
4. THE VERTICAL NEGRO
The Vertical Negro Plan
Carry-the-Books Plan
Timothy Mulcahy, Hitler, and Skelley`s
The fettering of the human spirit
A short story of America
Who has all the money?
Everybody is running away from everybody else
Racial segregation by law
I felt very close to this man
Public right and private preference
A plan for white citizens
Negro and Jew in Dixie
Negro question is a matter of social status
The fellow who flew to Ireland by mistake
My positive cure for anti-Semitism
The burning of the cross
The Downtown Luncheon Club is more exclusive than heaven
Isaac-Ikey-Ike
The Italian Americans
No one gives you a jar of anything
How to get a note renewed at the bank
Massa`s in de cold, cold ground
The boys were tired, too!
Jew music all the time
The history of the Jews in America
The turban is a very big thing
Jewish food
Secondhand pants, sixty cents
The needle industry coming South?
This could happen only in America
Movies for adults only
Countess Mara and I
We`ll soon run out of non-Jews
Closed shop versus open shop
What can you tell Texas Guinan?
Explaining the Southerner
From the Shpitzinitzer to the Rotary
I refuse to look it up
5. GALLI-CURCI AND BUBBLE GUM
Let`s take bubble gum out of the schools
Teaching Shylock
Shylock and William Shakespeare
Galli-Curci lingers
Need we defend books?
You licked the honey
Chopped chicken liver and schmaltz
No more newspaper extras
Caesar the humanist
Alexander Hamilton and Mrs. Reynolds
The journalism of Joseph Pulitzer
Exit the intellectual, enter the leader
Belshazzar`s Feast-with real cannon
Raisins and almonds
Is Greta Garbo an artist?
Forget victuals
Monday at the `Met`
The `workshop` is a bore
Greatest single moment in music
Shakespeare wrote the works of Bacon
They never met a payroll
6. TAMMANY, TAMMANY
How Tammany Hall did it
The death of Senator McCarthy
The politician-women
Causerie on the death of Mrs. Leo Frank
How Pompey lost an empire
When adultery was proof of `loyalty` My sermon on informers
Should housewives be in politics?
The impeachment of Governor Sulzer
Bloc voting
The Democratic Party and the South
When it`s raining, have no regrets
Crime investigations
The lawyers got a break
Negroes on the ballot
We hate our own
Shakespeare knew all about politicians
7. MERRY CHRISTMAS, BILLY GRAHAM
Mayor William J. Gaynor
A day with Carl Sandburg
William Travers Jerome
Judge Otto A. Rosalsky
Merry Christmas, Billy Graham
James Street
Walter Hampden
Sweet are the uses of adversity
A wonderful newspaper interview
Albert Schweitzer
Where Irving Berlin wrote his first song
8. THE FROZEN RABBI
We would be nothing without each other
This you call `bringing Christians`?
The best sermon-give `em hell
Bigger and better invocations
Don`t tell them about shrimp
The Frozen Rabbi
Brotherhood Week
The Ten Lost Tribes? They are the Presbyterians
Chocolate matzos
Rabbi, make it short
Unitarians wait for their first Negro
Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds
Give us a blond rabbi any time
Concerning those who go to services once a year
9. COMPLAINTS AND FREE ADVICE, OR TWENTY SIX NOTES IN CLOSING
The saloon and the cocktail lounge
How to hire a stenographer
Protest for eleven books
No more crying at Jewish weddings
Our new breed of knuckleheads
How to buy cigars
The wise guy is the sucker after all
Montor and Keyserling on the Stock Exchange
It`s the spirit that counts
Princess Ileana and Archduke Otto were here
What makes Mr. and Mrs. Jones run?
How to be healthy
Cato`s cure for a hangover
I`ll take care of the tip
Where is The Carolina Israelite?
And what to drink?
Are the no-dessert fellows sincere?
How to boost temple membership
Is it later than you think?
A man called-left no message
How do you feel?
Percentage-wise
How to go on the wagon
We have lost something
Shed a tear for the smoking car
America owes it to Christianity


Fiction, Biography, Humor, Politics