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Nelson Johnson frequently halted working on Boardwalk Empire to wrestle with how best to take care of the thorny subject matter of contest. But he persisted, and the result was a section - "A Plantation by the ocean" - that influenced this powerful sequel. In The Northside, Johnson brings the untold account of Atlantic City's dark-colored community vividly to life, from the appearance of the first African People in america to Absecon Island in the first 19th hundred years through the glory days and nights of the "World's Playground". Pulling on dozens of personal interviews and painstaking archival research, he uncovers long-forgotten details about the individuals on whose backs the gambling mecca was built and offers a wide-ranging survey of the achievements of newer generations. Exploited because of their labor and banished to the most unwanted part of town, resilient Northsiders created a vibrant city in just a city - a place where dark-colored culture could thrive and young people could aspire to become artists, sportsmen, educators, and leaders of business, politics, and modern culture. As Nelson Johnson shows in this unflinching portrait, Atlantic City was built on their toil and the Northside was created of the dreams.
