Forget It, Jake, It's Schenectady: The True Story Behind. David Bushman, Ben Coccio, David Bushman, Ben Coccio

Forget It, Jake, It's Schenectady: The True Story Behind

Forget-It-Jake-It-s.pdf
ISBN: 9781949024524 | 300 pages | 8 Mb

Forget It, Jake, It's Schenectady: The True Story Behind
David Bushman, Ben Coccio, David Bushman, Ben Coccio
Page: 300
Format: pdf, ePub, fb2, mobi
ISBN: 9781949024524
Publisher: Fayetteville Mafia Press

Download Forget It, Jake, It's Schenectady: The True Story Behind

Best free ebook download forum Forget It, Jake, It's Schenectady: The True Story Behind (English literature)

Overview

Stranger things do tend to happen in Schenectady— once a booming metropolis nicknamed the “City That Lights and Hauls the World” thanks to the dominating presence of General Electric and the American Locomotive Company, though those days are ancient history. GE has nearly abandoned the city, and ALCO closed up shot over fifty years ago. Hence, the title of this book: Forget It, Jake, It’s Schenectady: A Police Department Under Siege, and the Man Who Led It, a nod to the bleak conclusion of the classic film Chinatown, one of cinema’s most devastating expressions of abject resignation and defeat. A chance meeting between onetime Schenectady Police Chief Gregory Kaczmarek and author David Bushman in a Lyft car that Kaczmarek was driving was the genesis of this book, originally intended to track the rise and fall of a veteran cop with what appear to be two defining traits— an almost inhuman capacity for perseverance and a truly remarkable ability to attract notoriety and criticism. However, as the author’s research— including interviews with over two dozen people who lived through the events depicted in these pages.