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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.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Welch, Richard F.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sullivan, Timothy Daniel, 1862-1913.
- Sullivan, Timothy Daniel.
- National Book Committee.
- United States. Congress. House.
- Legislators--United States--Biography.
- Legislators.
- Political corruption.
- History.
- Politics and government.
- Politicians.
- United States.
- New York (State)--New York.
- United States. Congress. House--Biography.
- Politicians--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
- Tammany Hall--History.
- Tammany Hall.
- New York (N.Y.)--Politics and government--19th century.
- New York (N.Y.).
- New York (N.Y.)--Politics and government--20th century.
- Political corruption--New York (State)--New York--History.
- New York (N.Y.)--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 222 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2008]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-218) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780838641767
- 0838641768
- OCLC:
- 225852376
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