Imagining Universal National Service
Nelson Johnson |
TEDxCapeMay
• October 2019
Nelson Johnson is a former practicing attorney and New Jersey Superior Court Judge.
In the 1980s he represented the Atlantic City Planning Board during approval of many of the casino properties. It was that experience which motivated Nelson to write his book Boardwalk Empire which inspired the HBO series. The sequel The Northside: African Americans and the Creation of Atlantic City was published in 2010. His third book Battleground New Jersey: Vanderbilt, Hague and Their Fight for Justice was released by Rutgers University Press in November of 2014.