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005			20240726105342.0
008			130325s2009 nyuaf ob s001 0aeng d
040			_aNT _beng _erda _cNT
020			_a9781461921325 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)l((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)ctronic bk.
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050	0	4	_aCT275 _b.W487 2009
049			_aNTA
100	1		_aPell, Eve. _e1
245	1	0	_aWe used to own the Bronx _bmemoirs of a former debutante / _cEve Pell.
260			_aAlbany : _bExcelsior Editions/State University of New York Press, _c(c)2009.
300			_a1 online resource (xiv, 225 pages, 31. pages of plates) : _billustrations.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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520	1		_a"We Used to Own the Bronx tells the story of a woman born into the proprieties of an East Coast dynasty who nevertheless leaves her world of privilege for a career as an investigative reporter. Recounting her upbringing, Eve Pell offers an inside look at the bizarre values and customs of the American aristocracy, from debutante balls and the below-stairs hierarchy of the servant class to the fanatical pursuit of blood sports and private men's clubs whose members were cared for like sultans. In the patriarchal world of the upper crust, girls were expected to flatter and defer to boys and men: her scholar-athlete sister was offered a racehorse if she would refuse to attend college. A parade of eccentrics populates the book, from the cockfighting stepfather who ran away from boarding school with a false beard and a stolen motorcycle to the Brahmin great-uncle who secretly organized the servants in Tuxedo Park to vote for Teddy Roosevelt." "But as she moved beyond the narrow world she was expected to inhabit, Pell encountered people and ideas that brought her into conflict with her past. Equally unconventional are the muckrakers and revolutionaries she met in the 1960s and 1970s, and her subsequent adventures and misadventures while working with radical activists to reform the California prison system. As Pell traces her absorbing journey from debutante to working mother, from the upper crust of the East Coast to the radical activists of the West, from a life of wealth and privilege to one of trying to make ends meet, she provides exceptional insight into the prickly and complex issues of social class in America."--Jacket.
505	0	0	_tDeus, Amici, et Nos -- _tUpstairs/Downstairs -- _tMummy and Clarry -- _tThese Children Don't Cry -- _tCooky and His Fathers -- _tEscape from Home -- _tDebutante -- _tAwakenings -- _tMarriage -- _t2500 Filbert Street -- _tBreaking Out -- _tThe Comrade -- _tComplications -- _tOn the Beach and Making It Anyway -- _tMy Demented Mother and I.
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600	1	0	_aPell, Eve.
600	3	0	_aPell family.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=545963&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell