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King of the Bowery : Big Tim Sullivan, Tammany Hall, and New York City from the Gilded Age to the Progressive Era /
King of the Bowery is the first full-length biography of Timothy D. "Big Tim" Sullivan, the archetypal Tammany Hall leader who dominated New York City politics—and much of its social life—from 1890 to 1913. A poor Irish kid from the Five Points who rose through ambition, shrewdness, and ch...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
Excelsior Editions/State University of New York Press,
2010, ©2008.
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| Edición: | 1st Excelsior ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The city and the machine
- Upward mobility
- Running the game
- Taking his opportunities as he saw them
- Extracurricular activities
- No final victories
- George and Charlie and Willie and Tim
- The progressive
- The last hurrah
- Decline and fall
- Legacies.