Thomas Cirignano - "The Constant Outsider" Interview: Part 2

Thomas M. Cirignano, Author of "The Constant Outsider: Memoirs of a South Boston Mechanic" is interviewed by Chris Lovett of Neighborhood Network News.


The book can be ordered at any of the following links:

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Book Description:
Author and survivor Thomas M. Cirignano has seen it all...rackets, discrimination, the plight of many victims and more. He witnessed firsthand the hostility of the inner-city neighborhoods of Boston and got himself into dangerous, and often near fatal situations, far too often. This is an engaging look at the author's amazing experiences, and you are invited along for the wild ride, in The Constant Outsider: Memoirs of a South Boston Mechanic .

The Constant Outsider is a lively flashback to an era in Boston's history which was heavily influenced by several extraordinary circumstances. "White Flight" to the suburbs, organized crime, court ordered desegregation of the Boston schools via "Forced Busing", and believe it or not, violence caused by the gasoline shortages of the 1970's. It was not a pleasant time to own a filling station, as the author did until 1987.




Readers will relive many unbelievable moments as witnessed by the author, such as riots, gang wars, physical beatings by thugs and a community being overtaken by murder and drugs. Readers will get an inside look at what it was like to live and work in "Southie" during this tumultuous period. It was a time which was heavily influenced by Mobster Whitey Bulger and the unbridled illegal activities that struck the predominantly Irish neighborhood of South Boston. The author himself had a dangerous encounter with Whitey, and lived to tell about it. How did the author survive and what did he learn from his experiences? Read the book to find out.




*Note: While the accounts are true, names that first appear in quotation marks are not the actual names of the people discussed. The names have been changed to protect both the innocent and the guilty.

Within this book, the author gives each reader a unique opportunity to take a look deep inside his or herself. You will be encouraged to utilize the blank "Reader's Notes" pages, provided at several points in the book, to explore the significant people, critical choices, and life changing events of your own past. Doing so will perhaps give readers valuable insight into how and why they became the people they are today. Readers may discover that their lives have been anything but ordinary or typical, just as the author did.

Video Courtesy of Neighborhood Network News (NNNOnline.org) (Uploaded with permission)

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