An Irish-American odyssey : the remarkable rise of the O'Shaughnessy brothers / Colum Kenny.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kenny, Colum, 1951- author.

Contributor:

O'Shaughnessy, James, 1865-1950.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

O'Shaughnessy, James, 1865-1950.

O'Shaughnessy, James.

O'Shaughnessy, Thomas A., -1956.

O'Shaughnessy, Thomas A.

O'Shaughnessy family.

Irish Americans--Biography.

Irish Americans.

Journalists.

Advertising executives.

Illinois--Chicago.

United States.

Missouri.

Irish Americans--Missouri.

Irish Americans--Illinois--Chicago.

Advertising executives--United States--Biography.

Journalists--Illinois--Chicago--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 293 pages : illustrations, portraits, map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Columbia [Missouri] : University of Missouri Press, [2014]

Contents:

Missouri settlers

James O'Shaughnessy, star reporter

Rising fortunes in Chicago

Hyphenated immigrant loyalties

The Irish Fellowship Club and Chicago politics

Gus and the Gaelic revival

James at the helm of US advertising

Two Midwestern attorneys

Irish roots

An Irish leader in America

The best in the business

Missouri to Manhattan

Appendix one. Journalism of James O'Shaughnessy

Appendix two. A Missouri-Irish haunting.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"The O'Shaughnessy brothers' story takes place between 1860 and 1950 in Illinois, Missouri, New York, and Ireland. They were the children of an impoverished immigrant who fled the famine in Ireland and of his Irish-American wife. 'An Irish-American Odyssey' is the tale of this first-generation immigrant family's struggle to assimilate into American society, highlighting their perseverance and determination to seize opportunities and surmount obstacles, all the while establishing a legacy for their own descendants in American art, advertising, journalism, and public service."-- Publisher's description.

ISBN:

082622024X

9780826220240

OCLC:

867020653