Brooklyn Al Primo Posto: Vincent Coppola’s Magical Memoir of the Church, Mafia and the Gowanus Canal
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About Me
- vincent coppola
- Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- Vince Coppola spent ten years at Newsweek. He was lead reporter in Newsweek's early coverage of the AIDS epidemic and the destruction of the Space Shuttle Challenger. He has written three non-fiction books, "The Sicilian Judge," "Uneasy Warriors/The Perilous Journey of the Green Berets" and "Dragons of God/A Journey Through Far-Right America." He has written for Tina Brown's Talk, Esquire, Rolling Stone, Men's Journal, Worth, Atlanta. Coppola co-wrote "Grandfathered In" with Dr. Stan Winokur. In 2003, He wrote "Risk Revolution" with CEO Derek Smith, a road map for risk reduction and prudent policy-making in the Information Age. Coppola's memoir of his mother's battle against cancer was awarded a William Allen White Gold Medal by the University of Kansas. He graduated from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He has two children, Gabrielle,Brown University, a business reporter for Bloomberg in Sao Paulo, and Thomas, a pre-med student and Iraq War vet at Hamilton College.
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