Books written by Michael Olesker
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Journeys to the Heart of Baltimore
Keane grew up in a Baltimore where entire neighborhoods identified themselves by their churches. It was Artie Donovan's Bronx demarcation transported 200 miles south. “Where do you live?” “St. Ambrose Parish. You?” “Our Lady of Pompeii.
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Front Stoops in the Fifties: Baltimore Legends Come of Age
It's 1963 before Jacqueline McCurdy becomes the first female prosecutor in Baltimore County. At the Union Memorial Hospital School of Nursing, all students (female, of course) have to stand at their desks any time a doctor (male, ...
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Journeys to the Heart of Baltimore
The stories come from neighborhood street corners and front stoops, playgrounds and school rooms, churches and synagogues, and families gathered around late-night kitchen tables.
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Michael Olesker's Baltimore: If You Live Here, You're Home
There was a rewrite man , Byron Roberts , who decided to run for mayor . You can't win , everybody told him . I know , said Roberts , but when I die , the obits will all have “ Byron Roberts , former candidate for mayor of Baltimore , .
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Front Stoops in the Fifties: Baltimore Legends Come of Age
Olesker’s doo-wop portrait of Baltimore is nostalgic, but it has a hard edge. Front Stoops in the Fifties recounts the stories of some of Baltimore's most famous personalities as they grew up during the "decade of conformity.
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Front Stoops in the Fifties: Baltimore Legends Come of Age
24, 2008; and “Our Good Teen-agers,” Newsweek, Nov. 23, 1959. The Original Cast of Grease Kenny Waissman was interviewed on August 13, 2010, at Joe Allen's Restaurant in New York City's theater district.
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Leap Into Darkness: Seven Years on the Run in Wartime Europe
A harrowing, action-packed account of the author's series of audacious escapes from the Nazis' Final Solution--"riveting...a fascinating and moving piece of history" (Library Journal). Young Leo Bretholz survived the...
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Leap Into Darkness: Seven Years on the Run in Wartime Europe
This is the exceptional story of the survival of Leo Bretholz, a Jew caught up in Nazi-occupied Europe.
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The Colts' Baltimore: A City and Its Love Affair in the 1950s
A nostalgic chronicle of 1958 recaptures the city of Baltimore's love affair with the the Baltimore Colts after the team defeated the New York Giants in a dramatic overtime game, bringing together a series of colorful anecdotes and ...
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Journeys to the Heart of Baltimore
In the author's "love letter across the generations", essays capture America's melting pot, particularly Baltimore's, in all its rollicking, good-natured, and chaotic essence. 25 halftones.