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The Philadelphia reader / edited by Robert Huber and Benjamin Wallace ; foreword by Buzz Bissinger.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Reference F158.53 .P47 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philadelphia (Pa.)--Biography.
- Philadelphia (Pa.).
- Celebrities--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Biography.
- Celebrities.
- Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 284 p. ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2006.
- Summary:
- Those profiled include: Sandra Newman; Arlen Specter; Mumia Abu-Jamal; W. Wilson Goode, Sr; Bobby Simone; Ed Rendell; Robert Montgomery Scott; Mike Schmidt; Anne d'Harnoncourt; Judy Wicks; Brian Roberts; Frank Bender; Richard Glanton; Judith Rodin; Harry Jay Katz; Richard Sprague; Mike Teti; Terry Gross; Mayor John Street; M. Night Shyamalan; Vernon Hill; Smarty Jones; Mark Yagalla; Kenny Gamble; Julius Erving; Patti LaBelle; David Brooks; Dr. William Norwood; and Lang Lang.
- Notes:
- Articles originally published in Philadelphia magazine.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gemmill Fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 1592134602 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 1592134610 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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