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Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer, Authors, Teachers, Professors & New Hampshire Residents Harvey and Myrna Katz Frommer have collaborated on four oral histories, all of which deal with themes close to their hearts. It Happened in the Catskills is a nostalgic and humorous look back at the vacation-land just ninety minutes from Broadway where so many great entertainers got their start. It Happened in Brooklyn tells the story of mid-century Brooklyn where the authors were born and raised, home of the famed Brooklyn Dodgers, Nathan's franks, stopp-ball, stick-ball, and the best high schools in America. Growing up Jewish in America is an evocation of Jewish American childhood from one end of the nation to the other and from the beginning of this century to close to its end. It Happened on Broadway is the ultimate backstage story told by legendary performers, producers, directors, and choreographers of The Great White Way, nearly sixty years of "mesmerizing" Broadway history, according to columnist Liz Smith. Myrna and Harvey were life-long New Yorkers until the Summer of 1996 when they moved to Lyme, New Hampshire and became professors in the Masters of the Arts in Liberal Studies Program (MALS) at Dartmouth where they teach (what else?) oral history. |
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It Happened on Broadway Myrna Katz Frommer Harvey Frommer 
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Here is a book filled with the light and magic of Broadway theater, told from the living memories of the people who created it. What made Carol Channing decide to go into the theater? What great musical did Moss Hart first hear in kindergarten? What positions did Neil Simon, Robert Redford, and Manny Azenberg play on Barefoot in the Park's softball team? These and hundreds more stories make It Happened on Broadway a fascinating, informative, and very intimate picture of the life of the theater.
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It Happened in Brooklyn Myrna Katz Frommer Harvey Frommer
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It Happened in Brooklyn tells the story of mid-century Brooklyn where the authors were born and raised, home of the famed Brooklyn Dodgers, Nathan's franks, stopp-ball, stick-ball, and the best high schools in America. |
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It Happened in the Catskills Myrna Katz Frommer Harvey Frommer
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The magic of the Catskills comes back vividly in this lively collection of memories from those who were there when it was the place to be. Just "ninety minutes from Broadway," the Catskills were a training ground and showcase for some of the biggest musical and comedic talents ever. In this oral narrative, more than a hundred voices share stories spanning nearly a century and evoking an experience that in many ways exists now only as a memory.
Oversized and bountifully illustrated, It Happened in the Catskills, will delight and inform anyone who knows of the Catskills only through Hollywood portrayals such as Dirty Dancing and Broadway Danny Rose--and will be treasured nostalgia for all those who may have spent a summer or two of their own in the Mountains. |
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Shoeless Joe and Ragtime Baseball Harvey Frommer
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Did he or didn't he? The question of legendary hitter Shoeless Joe Jackson's guilt in the 1919 Black Sox scandal is the most compelling mystery in sports. Now, sports historian and best selling author Harvey Frommer fuses oral history, court testimony ( including complete never-before-published text of Jackson's grand jury testimony), and sparkling narrative to re-create the life and times of the illiterate farm boy who became one of the greatest players of all time. |
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New York City Baseball: The Last Golden Age, 1947-1957 Harvey Frommer
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When the lights came on again after World War II, they illuminated a nation ready for heroes and a city --New York--eager for entertainment. Baseball provided the heroes, and the Yankees, the Giants, and the Dodgers--with their rivalries, their successes, their stars--provided the show.
Oisk and Newk, Pee Wee and Skoonj, Ski, Campy, Preacher, Westy, Blacky, Whitey, Yogi, the Yankee Clipper, the Peepul's Cherce, the Old Reliable--New York City Baseball recaptures the golden decade of 1947-1957, when the three New York teams were the uncrowned kings of the city and the very embodiment of the national pastime for much of the U.S. In those ten years, Casey Stengel and his Bronx Bombers went to the World Series seven times; Joltin' Joe DiMaggio stepped gracefully aside to make room for a yong slugger named Mickey Mantle; one Bobby Thomson hit "the shot heard 'round the world"' and the Brooklyn (but not for much longer) Dodgers achieved the impossible by beating the Yankees in the 1955 World Series. |
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