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Love In The Shadows: Passaic River Trilogy comes to an End
Payback - Tales of Love, Hate and Revenge
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Passaic River Trilogy Series

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"LOVE In the Shadows," the final book of the Passaic River Trilogy, takes the reader from 1947 Newark through the dark shadows where mindless brutes of all classes preyed on the helpless. Women were fighting back and for the first-time muscular feminism was changing the world with Rosie the Rive

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PublisherSteve Bassett
Release dateNov 29, 2019
Love In The Shadows: Passaic River Trilogy comes to an End
Payback - Tales of Love, Hate and Revenge

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  • Payback - Tales of Love, Hate and Revenge

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    Payback - Tales of Love, Hate and Revenge
    Payback - Tales of Love, Hate and Revenge

    Payback – Tales of Love, Hate and Revenge, the second book of the Passaic River Trilogy, is a drama so intense that it would be improbable anywhere but 1946 Newark. Across the country millions were dealing with the loss of loved ones, and horrible memories were being buried for the greater good. But not in Newark. Two muti

  • Love In The Shadows: Passaic River Trilogy comes to an End

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    Love In The Shadows: Passaic River Trilogy comes to an End
    Love In The Shadows: Passaic River Trilogy comes to an End

    "LOVE In the Shadows," the final book of the Passaic River Trilogy, takes the reader from 1947 Newark through the dark shadows where mindless brutes of all classes preyed on the helpless. Women were fighting back and for the first-time muscular feminism was changing the world with Rosie the Rive

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Steve Bassett

Steve Bassett was born, raised and educated in New Jersey, and although far removed during a career as a multiple award-winning journalist, he has always been proud of the sobriquet Jersey Guy. He has been legally blind for almost a decade but hasn't let this slow him down. Polish on his mother's side and Montenegrin on his father's, with grandparents who spoke little or no English, his early outlook was ethnic and suspicious. As a natural iconoclast, he joined the dwindling number of itinerant newsmen roaming the countryside in search of, well just about everything. Sadly, their breed has vanished into the digital ether. Bassett's targets were not selected simply by sticking pins in a map. There had to be a sense of the bizarre.First there was The Long Branch Daily Record on the New Jersey shore. Mobsters loved the place. It was one of their favorite watering holes. A mafia soldier was gunned down not far from the paper. Great fun for a cub reporter. Curiosity got the better of him with his next choice the Pekin Daily Times located in central Illinois. Now a respected newspaper, it had once been the official voice of the Ku Klux Klan during the 1920's. Pekin had saved its bacon during the Depression by tacitly approving two time-honored money makers, prostitution and gambling, earning an eight-page spread in Life.Next it was the Salt Lake Tribune. The Pulitzer Prize winner was then, and still is, considered one of the best dailies west of the Rockies. Bassett's coverage of the invective laden contract talks between the United Mine Workers and the three copper mining giants led to his recruitment by the Associated Press. Bassett's series for the AP in Phoenix uncovered the widespread abuses inherent in the Government's Barcero program for Mexican contract workers. The series exposed working and housing conditions that transformed workers into virtual slave laborers forced to buy at company stores, live in squalid housing and pay illegally collected unemployment taxes that went into the pocket of their bosses. The series led to Bassett's promotion and transfer to the San Francisco bureau where as an Urban Affairs investigative reporter he covered the Black Panthers, anti-war protests, the radical takeover and closure of San Francisco State University, the deadly "People's Park" demonstrations at U.C. Berkeley, and the Patty Hearst kidnapping by the Symbionese Liberation Army. Bassett's five-part series on the Wah Ching gained national attention by exposing the Chinese youth gang as the violent instrument of Chinatown's criminal bosses. Then came CBS television news in Los Angeles, where he rose through the ranks to become producer of KNXT's Evening News, the highest rated late-night news program in the nation's second-largest media market. After a four-year stint with KFMB-TV, the CBS station in San Diego, he returned to Los Angeles as the Executive Producer of Metromedia's KNXT's award-winning news program, Metro News. AWARDS: •Three Emmy Awards for his investigative documentaries.•The prestigious Medallion Award presented by the California Bar Association for "Distinguished Reporting on the Administration of Justice." •Honored by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences as Executive Producer for Metro News, the top independent news program in 1979. Bassett currently resides in Placitas, New Mexico with his wife Darlene Chandler Bassett. Contact Steve on his website: stevebassettworld.com.

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