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Summary: ROUGH TIMES IN THE CITY OF BROTHERLY LOVE_x000D__x000D_"Growing Up on the Streets of Philadelphia" is a story of coming of age in big city America. It chronicles the experiences and adventures of a boy coping with everyday life situations as a member of a working-class family struggling to survive amidst poverty and alcoholism, while never losing hope for a better future. In the backdrop of this urban landscape, it depicts the many challenges and hardships faced along the road to adulthood, eventual success achieved through a mixture of ambition, curiosity and blind luck, supplemented by the guidance and inspiration of the special characters encountered along the way._x000D__x000D_The story describes the unique rough and tough Kensington neighborhood, the street-smart kids as both hooligans and entrepreneurs; the immigrant merchants who kept the community afloat; and the gradual climb from destitution to a better life. Principles and values are cultivated, mistakes are made, and victories achieved. _x000D__x000D_"Growing Up" provides a nostalgic look at big-city life in the not-so-distant past. It opens a window onto unique life-changing experiences, and those ordinary but challenging situations many of us have faced as we passed through those formative years._x000D__x000D_"For those who lived during the early Cold War years of big-city America, this book will be a fascinating reminder; for others, it will be a glimpse into an almost forgotten era in one of the United States' greatest cities."_x000D_----Allen Anderson, author of Memoir of an Alcoholic American Spy_x000D_----------------------------------------------_x000D_"This is personal memoir at its very best. Buck's story of how he went from a shabby home in a factory town to serving in the Army and working for the government is modest and charming. This is the American dream done |
