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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 / Richard F. Welch

Author
Welch, Richard F.
Published
Albany : Excelsior Editions/State University of New York Press, 2010.
Copyright Date
©2008
Edition
1st Excelsior ed.
Physical Description
1 online resource (222 pages) : illustrations, portraits
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Contents
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.
Summary
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 charisma to become the most powerful single politician in New York, Sullivan was quick to perceive and embrace the shifting demographics of downtown New York, recruiting Jewish and Italian newcomers to his largely Irish machine to create one of the nation's first multiethnic political organizations. Though a master of the personal, paternalistic, and corrupt politics of the late nineteenth century, Sullivan paradoxically embraced a variety of progressive causes, especially labor and women's rights, anticipating many of the policies later pursued by his early acquaintances and sometimes antagonists Al Smith and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Drawing extensively on contemporary sources, King of the Bowery offers a rich, readable, and authoritative potrayal of Gotham on the cusp of the modern age, as refracted through the life of a man who exemplified much of it.
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9781441658180 (electronic bk.)
1441658181 (electronic bk.)
1438431821 (pbk.)
9781438431826 (pbk.)
9781438431833
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text file
Note
Originally published: Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, ©2008.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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