Harlem Godfather: The Rap on My Husband, Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson Paperback - 2008
by Johnson, Mayme
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- Paperback
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- Title Harlem Godfather: The Rap on My Husband, Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson
- Author Johnson, Mayme
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used: Good
- Pages 244
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oshun Publishing Company, Incorporated
- Date 2008-05-13
- Features Bibliography
- Bookseller's Inventory # SONG0967602831
- ISBN 9780967602837 / 0967602831
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.6 in (21.34 x 13.72 x 1.52 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Harlem (New York, N.Y.), Johnson, Bumpy
- Dewey Decimal Code B
From the jacket flap
He was called an old-fashioned gentleman. He was called a pimp. A philanthropist and a thief. A scholar and a thug. A man who admonished children to stay in school, and a man who some say introduced heroin into Harlem.
Bumpy was a man whose contradictions are still the root of many an argument in Harlem. But there is one thing on which both his supporters and detractors agree in his lifetime, Bumpy was the man in Harlem.
If you wanted to do anything in Harlem, anything at all, you'd better stop and see Bumpy because he ran the place. Want to open a number spot on the Avenue? Go see Bumpy. Thinking about converting your brownstone into a speakeasy? Check with Bumpy first.
The police knew it they came to him to negotiate peace between young street gangs. The politicians knew it they counted on him to deliver votes on Election Day. Even the Italian and Jewish syndicate knew it, although they had to find out the hard way.
Harlem Godfather: The Rap On My Husband, Ellsworth Bumpy Johnson is the first complete biography of a man who for years was Harlem s best kept, and most cherished secret.
