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    The Blackboard Jungle

    Written by Evan Hunter

    Narrated by James Patrick Cronin

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    About this audiobook

    Written in 1954, this controversial story cracked down on the public school system and dramatized student violence as no other novel of its time did. Hunter used his own teaching experience to create protagonist Richard Dadier, who lands his first real job as an English teacher at North Manual Trades High School in New York City.

    Dadier knows the students here will be tough, but nothing has prepared him for the world he enters. Hunter's popular and groundbreaking novel attracted much attention when it was first published, and it became a top bestseller in 1955.

    Set against the changing social culture of the 1950s, The Blackboard Jungle is a fascinating time capsule that brilliantly illuminates an issue still in the forefront of our minds.

    ©1959 Evan Hunter (P)2017 Dreamscape Media, LLC

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media Audio
    Release dateJun 6, 2017
    ISBN9781520049267
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    The Blackboard Jungle
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    Evan Hunter

    Evan Hunter’s writing career spanned more than five decades, from his first novel, The Blackboard Jungle, in 1954, to the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, to Candyland, written in tandem with his alter ego, Ed McBain, to his last novel, Fiddlers. He was the first American ever to receive the Diamond Dagger, the British Crime Writers Association’s highest award. He also held the Mystery Writers of America’s prestigious Grand Master Award. The author of more than 130 novels and story collections, he died in 2005.

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    • 4/5
      An excellent story of a man "trying" to teach at a vocational high school in New York City in the 1950's -- very insightful, exciting, discouraging, inspiring. And have things really changed? Some yes, but some no. Kind of sad really :(
    • 4/5
      The autho legally adopted this name in 1952. He also used the name Ed McBain. This novel was famous at the time I read it, and I found it appropriately shocking.
    • 5/5
      This is where it began. mr. daddy-o walks into the JD school and notices signs all over the place--this way to principal, principal's office, principal's secretary,thus concluding does mr.daddy-0, By God,we believe in signs around here.and laugh out loud funny. it was in the 50s and of course is dated, but still we are continuing to be pretty much the same kind of human mostly. And he had such a writer's eye and ear. When daddy-0 comes to face prejudice of his own in a brief awful instant, and when his pregnant wife is made to doubt him, well, its just a great, exciting novel and it was actually the first.
    • 4/5
      4 ★ ? ---- Written in 1954, Evan Hunter is said to have used his own teaching experience to create the protagonist, Richard Dadier. Rick Dadier is WW II Navy veteran who has attended college and sought his first professional job as an English teacher in North Manual Trades High School in New York City. (1950's) This vocational school is "full of often violent boys who have washed out of academic high schools and wound up in a dead end, urban educational cesspool called North Manual Trades High School." (from summary) Basically, Dadier is idealistic and the boys disaffected....the drama of their interactions is intense.