"In 1876, a fourteen-year-old boy from the Southern Italian town of Castelnuovo Cilento arrived in Philadelphia with forty cents to his name. By the time of his passing, C.C.A. Baldi had become one of the most well-known and successful Italian Americans in Philadelphia history. He started by selling lemons off a pushcart and, along with his brothers, eventually established a business empire that included a coal yard, a funeral home, a community bank and the largest Italian-language newspaper in America. Baldi was twice decorated a knight and a commander by the king of Italy and was the target of a political bombing assassination attempt. Author Charles G. Douglas, III, along with Victor L. Baldi, III, and Douglas Baldi Swift, present the rags-to-riches story of Philadelphia’s C.C.A. Baldi." --Publisher's blurb
Author Chuck Douglas graduated from the University of New Hampshire and received his law degree from Boston University in 1968. He served as legal counsel to the governor from 1973 to 1974, when he became a judge on the Superior Court. In 1977, he became a justice on the New Hampshire Supreme Court, serving until 1985. Douglas is the author of two other books on evidence and family law and is a trial attorney in Concord, New Hampshire. He and his wife, Debra, live in Bow, New Hampshire, where they serve as publisher and editors of the Bow Times, the local newspaper with a circulation of 4,100.
Join the author at Gibson's Bookstore on Wednesday, October 5, 2022 at 6:30 pm.
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