The Amboy Dukes (novel)
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The Amboy Dukes (novel)
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The Amboy Dukes is a 1947 novel by Irving Shulman, his first. The novel concerns the misadventures of a 1940s Jewish street gang of young toughs based on Amboy Street in the working class Brownsville section of Brooklyn. The gang, characters, and most of the story are fictional, but a key event of the novel – the murder of a high school teacher by two gang members – was based on an actual case. The Amboy Dukes was considered somewhat outré, unsavory, and shocking for its time, as it depicts its
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