About Ina Chadwick

Ina Chadwick grew up in a highly controversial family structure, one where her father, a union leader who was never home, warned the children to “never tell tales out of school.” She had no idea what that meant, but her father’s union’s transcripts during the McCarthy era are up in her attic. She was too young to tell tales at that time. Now, years later, the tales are flooding back into her memory. And she can truthfully say that she is willing to tell them in her own way, and that every man she has ever flipped for has has some sort of addiction problem, just like her Dad, whom she worshiped. Visit her website.

A Reflection on 9/11: An American Jew in Spain

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Stranded in Spain when the Twin Towers fell, Ina Chadwick experience the greatest of divides.

Facing My Father’s Demons

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One drink leads Ina Chadwick to a struggle with class, gender, power and more than a few of her father’s ghosts.

My Family Fixed the 1951 Pennant

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Bobby Thomson’s “Shot Heard ’Round the World” couldn’t have happened without a crafty Polo Grounds electrician—and Dodgers fanatic—named Abe Chadwick.

Scheherazade of the Stove

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Ina Chadwick’s biggest addiction? Addicted men. She thinks her dad had something to do with it.

Daddy’s Gunslinging Daughter

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In 1962, when Marilyn Monroe was queen, Ina Chadwick could never keep her union-leader father’s attention—until she picked up a .22-caliber rifle.

Hush Money

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Ina Chadwick reminisces about her larger-than-life father and his untimely death—and imagines how it might have been different.