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The Amboy Dukes is a 1947 novel by Irving Shulman, his first. The novel concerns the misadventures of a 1940s Jewish street gang of young toughs based on Amboy Street in the working class Brownsville section of Brooklyn (Brownsville, from its founding into the 1950s, was a primarily Jewish neighborhood). [1]
Plot. Two members of a tough Brooklyn street gang accidentally kill one of their teachers. Frank Cusack is a leading member of the Amboy Dukes teenage gang based in a slum-ridden area of Brooklyn. His activities with the gang ultimately lead from vandalism and hooliganism to complicity in the murder of a school teacher.
In The Amboy Dukes, two members of the gang accidentally shoot and kill one of their teachers; a third member of the Dukes kills one of them before the story is over. Cry Tough! has another member of the Dukes, Mitchell Wolf, return from prison and, after trying unsuccessfully to "go straight," become a member of an organized crime family.
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The Amboy Dukes. Irving Shulman. 3.63. 56 ratings8 reviews. A searing novel of a street gang, their girls, their “whores,” their crimes. Here is the explosive, inside story of life as lived by the children of violence - the fighting, the killing, the drugs, the promiscuous sex.
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Jan 1, 1971 · The Amboy Dukes. Mass Market Paperback – January 1, 1971. A searing novel of a street gang, their girls, their “whores,” their crimes. Here is the explosive, inside story of life as lived by the children of violence - the fighting, the killing, the drugs, the promiscuous sex.
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Feb 6, 1972 · The Amboy Street of “The Amboy Dukes” is gone —demolished to make way for the Marcus Garvey Model Cities project. Five‐million copies of “The Amboy Dukes” were sold in the...
Mar 29, 1995 · Mr. Shulman's first and most popular novel, in 1947, was "The Amboy Dukes," about juvenile street gangs in a Brooklyn slum. The book was turned into the 1949 film "City Across the River,"...
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