LEADER 03812nam 22006254a 450 001 9910815498903321 005 20230721024927.0 010 $a1-280-49836-6 010 $a9786613593597 010 $a0-8135-4844-6 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813548449 035 $a(CKB)2520000000007897 035 $a(EBL)889004 035 $a(OCoLC)593315792 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000343670 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11243043 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000343670 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10291862 035 $a(PQKB)11650394 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC889004 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse19709 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL889004 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10367240 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL359359 035 $a(DE-B1597)529877 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813548449 035 $a(EXLCZ)992520000000007897 100 $a20081031d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aThere's more to New Jersey than the Sopranos /$fMarc Mappen 210 $aNew Brunswick, N.J. $cRivergate Books$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (224 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8135-4586-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; Introduction; 1 How We Got to Where We Are; 2 When Prehistoric Elephants Roamed New Jersey; 3 New Jersey Was Paradise; 4 Move Over, Betsy Ross; 5 Good Golly, Miss Molly; 6 The Caldwell Murder Case; 7 "The Cow Chace"; 8 Classical Gas; 9 The Congressman's Cold; 10 The First Flight; 11 John Adams's Ass; 12 Man Eats Tomato and Lives!; 13 Explosion on the USS Princeton; 14 Two New Jersey Soldiers in Confederate Prisons; 15 General Grant Skips the Theater; 16 The Jersey General and the Secret of Custer's Last Stand; 17 Poor Mary Smith; 18 Mrs. Stanton Steps Out in Tenafly 327 $a19 It's About Time 20 Leprosy in the Laundry; 21 Stephen Crane Gets into Trouble; 22 The Ghostly Sphynx of Metedeconk; 23 Annie Oakley Lived in Nutley, New Jersey; 24 Scandal at the Girls' Reform School; 25 Alice Goes for a Drive; 26 Billy Sunday Came to Trenton on Monday; 27 Ezra Pound Insults Newark; 28 Cher Ami; 29 The Poet, the Athlete, and the War to End All Wars; 30 The Applejack Campaign; 31 Swan Song for Shoeless Joe; 32 The Tragic Fall of the Mexican Lindbergh; 33 On the Boardwalk with Al Capone; 34 The Morro Castle Mystery; 35 The Rise and Fall of a Great Detective 327 $a36 Mommy Was a Commie 37 The Martian Invasion; 38 When New Jersey Was a Nazi Target; 39 Teleporting Penguin Lands in New Jersey; 40 The Serpent in the Garden State: A Brief History of Corruption; Postscript: How to Write an Encyclopedia of New Jersey in Nine Easy Years; Suggestions for Further Reading; Index 330 $aIn this lively romp through history from the primitive past to the present day, MarcMappen's message resonatesu? There's More to New Jersey than the Sopranos. Real tales, wise tales, tall tales abound throughout the pages of Mappen's collection, filled with zest, humor, scandal, and occasionally tragedy. Providing a lens into American history through lively prose and more than twenty-five illustrations, this book is as much fun as a trip to the Jersey Shore and definitely more rewarding than a night home watching televisionu? simply stated, this book is one you can't refuse to 606 $aHISTORY / General$2bisacsh 607 $aNew Jersey$xHistory 615 7$aHISTORY / General. 676 $a974.9 700 $aMappen$b Marc$01680293 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815498903321 996 $aThere's more to New Jersey than the Sopranos$94048937 997 $aUNINA