The Pushcart War

Paperback, 222 pages

English language

Published Jan. 6, 1987 by Dell Yearling.

ISBN:
978-0-440-47147-9
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OCLC Number:
32289784

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DO YOU KNOW THE HISTORY OF THE PUSHCART WAR? THE REAL HISTORY?

It’s a story of how regular people banded together and, armed with little more than their brains and good aim, defeated a mighty foe.

Not long ago the streets of New York City were smelly, smoggy, sooty, and loud. There were so many trucks making deliveries that it might take an hour for a car to travel a few blocks. People blamed the truck owners and the truck owners blamed the little wooden pushcarts that traveled the city selling everything from flowers to hot dogs.

Behind closed doors the truck owners declared war on the pushcart peddlers. Carts were smashed from Chinatown to Chelsea. The peddlers didn’t have money or the mayor on their side, but that didn’t stop them from fighting back. They used pea shooters to blow tacks into the tires of trucks, they outwitted the …

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Subjects

  • Fiction
  • Children’s book
  • Trucking
  • Pushcarts
  • Labor unions
  • New York City
  • Comedy