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Podcast: VINnews Podcast
Episode: THE DEFINITIVE RAP: From Fist Fights in Public School to 4 hours everyday travel to a Queens Yeshiva, Meet Author Dr. Marc Straus
Description: Today’s show is a little different than our previous shows. Instead of politics, we have a very special guest, Dr. Marc Straus to talk about his book, One-Legged Mongoose: Secrets, Legacies, and Coming of Age in 1950’s New York. And just in time for Chanukah.
When you first start reading this book,  it reads something like ‘The Goldberg’s’ meet ‘The Wonder Years’ Television shows, as the book starts off with Marc recalling about his chain-smoking mother who drives down the Belt Parkway like a speed demon, then, without slowing down, up the ramp off the Van Wyck Ex...