{"product_id":"up-from-ocean-avenue-phil-ball-9798451442555","title":"Up From Ocean Avenue: Phil Ball's story as told by Maxwell Klausner","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1935, Phil Ball's bankrupt father moved his family from the familiar Jewish world of Newark to the immigrant-rich melting pot of Jersey City, where the family would work and live inside a dimly-lit candy store. Just as his forebears fled the Shtetls of the Old Country for a new life in America, Phil would soon come to know a new world, full of varying tongues, complexions, and faiths. But through the trials of a Depression and a World War, young Phil kept his head up and his mind on the prize: Easy Street, a proverbial time and place his father believed was just around the corner. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Phil took his first steps into a post-war adulthood, he would be swept up by the grand sense of optimism that was coming to define America. Like so many of the first and second-generation kids from his old block, Phil would rise above his candy store roots to become his family's first college graduate, an animated salesman, and ultimately, a prosperous businessman-with no shortage of missteps along the way. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Phil's story, full of warts, humor, and self-reflection, isn't his alone. The spirit of his ancestors, the faith of his parents, and the chutzpah of his Jersey City crowd all play a role in this journey from Ocean Avenue to Easy Street (if there even is such a place).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Phil Ball, Maxwell Klausner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 8451442552\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798451442555\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/16\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.66lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.46d","brand":"Phil Ball","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45180457320703,"sku":"9798451442555","price":11.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5e66fbc0-e44b-4bef-904c-ec7d04e1da70.jpg?v=1712898025","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/up-from-ocean-avenue-phil-ball-9798451442555","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}