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Book Reviews:
The Latest Irish Books

By Tom Deignan, Columnist
December / January 2001

December 1, 2000 by Leave a Comment

NON-FICTION The Irish cop is no stereotype. As authors Thomas Reppetto and James Lardner show, in their informative new history NYPD: A City and Its Police, the Irish have played an integral role on New York City's police force since its creation in 1844. By the mid- 1880s, the authors write, one survey "found that out of approximately three thousand police officers of … [Read more...] about Book Reviews:
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