How Long to Read Bowery Blues

How Long Does it Take to Read Bowery Blues?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 15 minutes to read Bowery Blues by Jack Cook

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Introduction: the author affirms that the germ of this work was Dorothy Days direction to get his pieces collected. Dedicatory poem O For A Voice by William Blake A Tribute to Dorothy Day from authors Prologue, Rags of Time: A Season in Prison Jim Wilson Gets Three Years, December 1966: reports on the trip to Newark, NJ, with Dorothy Day and Pat Rusk to witness one of the first draft card burners sentencing. The Fast and the Waters, March, 1967: the story of a two-week fast by Catholic Workers at the National Shrine in Washington, DC. Chrystie Street, May 1967: Describes the daily routine of workers in their various settings at the Chrystie Street House of Hospitality. Rangers Riot, Strikers Suffer, Chavez: We Will Endure, June, 1967: reports on a melon strike in Rio Grande City, Texas; the strike-breaking activities of Texas Rangers, Chavezs intervention. The Powerless Blacks On Long Island, July 1967: reports on unorganized farm workers and conditions in labor camps on potato farms. Chrystie Street, July 1967: Living with violence during Summer of Riots. Men of the Fields on the Pavements of New York, September 1967: reports on visit of California farm workers to the Worker, their base as they organize Hunts Point Market. Delano: The City and the Strikers, November 1967: report on Chavezs community and headquarters, Forty Acres, in Delano, CA. Chrystie Street, November 1967:reports on FBI agents infiltration of our soup line. Chrystie Street, December 1967: Story of Mama, an aged neighbor and daily guest of our house, her disappearance, and our discovery of her. A Man and a Vision, December 1967: reports on one of the volunteer laborers at Forty Acres, Emil Flackner, a plasterer. Chrystie Street, January 1968: describes Death and the Christmas season at the House. A Response to the Resistance, January 1968: a speech by author at the Eastern Conference for Non-Cooperation with Selective Service, October 30, 1966 Chrystie Street, March 1968: report on Bowery men. Chrystie Street, April 1968: on the assassination of Martin Luther King. Chrystie Street, June 1968: a letter about the House to Jim Wilson, CW editor, in prison at Allenwood Prison Farm. Miller and Kelly Jailed, July, 1968: Miller was the first to burn his draft card, Kelly was a beautiful soul. Che and the Revolutionary experience, July-August 1968: a discussion of Ches Diary in terms of aspects of a revolutionary way of life. 36 East First Street, September 1968: a report on the move to the new House, new volunteers, the authors arrest and indictment. 36 East First Street, November 1968: facing winter in the new House on the Bowery. Cogley and the Relevance of Radicalism, November 1968: a response to an article critical of the CW by a former Catholic Worker. 36 East First Street, December 1968: Letter to Dan Kelly at Allenwood Prison Farm. Jailed Editors Write, February 1969: Letter from author to House from Federal House of Detention in New York City. Three Prison Poems, May, 1969: Ways of Doing Time, To My Wife, and Prayer. Post-Prison Poems, February 1971: Soup line Revisited, In Deerfield, Massachusetts. John Dunn Hunter: Victim and Measure, September 1973: A review of Richard Drinnons White Savage: The Case of John Dunn Hunter, and in response to Wounded Knee II. The Monument, June-July 1983: a report on a visit to the Vietnam Memorial. The Face of Falsehood, March 1987: excerpt from my 1986 work, a literary study of Melville and Hawthorne. A History of Abandonment, June-July 1991: an article in response to the Iraqi War. In Defense of a Generation of Objectors, 1997: a response to a military mans criticism of those who refused to fight in Vietnam. An Open Letter to the Catholic Worker, 1998: a defense of Dorothy Day in response to Cardinal OConners effort to pursue canonization of her as the pat

How long is Bowery Blues?

Bowery Blues by Jack Cook is 189 pages long, and a total of 48,951 words.

This makes it 64% the length of the average book. It also has 60% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Bowery Blues Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 27 minutes to read Bowery Blues aloud.

What Reading Level is Bowery Blues?

Bowery Blues is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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