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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.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Excelsior Editions SeriesPublisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (224 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781438431833
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: King of the BoweryLOC classification:
  • E664.S95 W45 2010
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- King of the Bowery -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The City and the Machine -- 2. Upward Mobility -- 3. Running the Game -- 4. Taking His Opportunities as He Saw Them -- 5. Extracurricular Activities -- Constituent Service -- Investor and Producer -- 6. No Final Victories -- 7. George and Charlie and Willie and Tim -- 8. The Progressive -- 9. The Last Hurrah -- 10. Decline and Fall -- 11. Legacies -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: The first full-length biography of Timothy D. "Big Tim" Sullivan, who dominated New York City politics in the three decades prior to World War I.
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Intro -- King of the Bowery -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The City and the Machine -- 2. Upward Mobility -- 3. Running the Game -- 4. Taking His Opportunities as He Saw Them -- 5. Extracurricular Activities -- Constituent Service -- Investor and Producer -- 6. No Final Victories -- 7. George and Charlie and Willie and Tim -- 8. The Progressive -- 9. The Last Hurrah -- 10. Decline and Fall -- 11. Legacies -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

The first full-length biography of Timothy D. "Big Tim" Sullivan, who dominated New York City politics in the three decades prior to World War I.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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