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The Amboy Dukes is a 1947 novel by Irving Shulman, his first. The novel concerns the misadventures of a 1940s Jewish street gang of young toughs based on Amboy Street in the working class Brownsville section of Brooklyn (Brownsville, from its founding into the 1950s, was a primarily Jewish neighborhood). [ 1 ]
Irving Shulman (May 21, 1913 – March 23, 1995) was an American author and screenwriter whose works were adapted into movies. His books included The Amboy Dukes, Cry Tough, The Square Trap, and Platinum High School, all of which were adapted into movies. Shulman wrote the early film treatment for Rebel Without a Cause.
Ted Nugent, the nucleus of the Amboy Dukes, was born and raised in Detroit and started performing in 1958 at age 10.He played in a group called the Royal High Boys from 1960 to 1962 and later in group named the Lourds, where he first met future Amboy Dukes lead vocalist John Drake.
The Amboy Dukes may refer to: The Amboy Dukes (novel) , 1947 American novel about juvenile delinquents The Amboy Dukes (band) , American rock band founded 1964
Film critic Dennis Schwartz questioned the honesty of the screenplay: "This is a much softened version of Irving Schulman's The Amboy Dukes, a book about a rough gang of teenagers in the postwar [sic] period of Brooklyn ... This is a tired and clichéd film with its main selling point all the good location shots of the city.
He was awarded the 2006 Thurber Prize for American Humor [10] for his book, The Other Shulman. In 2009, he was awarded an honorary PhD. by the State University of New York , and in 2010, he was given the Ian McLellan Hunter Lifetime Achievement Award by the Writers Guild of America, East .
The Dukes' first offering was their self-titled album The Amboy Dukes which charted. It featured their first charting single " Baby, Please Don't Go ", an intense cover of a Big Joe Williams song. The second album was Journey to the Center of the Mind a psychedelic rock opera that was their highest-charting album and produced their most ...
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