Rum Owd Boys: On Poachers, Wildfowlers, Longshore Pirates, Cut-Throat Islanders, Smugglers & Fen-Tigers Book

Comprehensive behind-the-scenes story of how the NY:NJ Port Authority was created, which was actually the owner of the World Trade Center (who knew??) and all the in-fighting that went on to design and build the 2 towers. The book is written (prior to the 9/11 attacks) by an American Studies college professor, and while it's very interesting, it's not a smooth trajectory. He back tracks and reiterates some of the same history/politics in several of the chapters, almost as if each chapter was written to stand alone as a scholarly article on some topic (history of NYC politics, role of unions, etc) rather than be a building block for the chapter to follow in the book.