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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
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- Summary
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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.
Details
- Creator
- Richard F. Welch
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st Excelsior ed
- Albany : Excelsior Editions/State University of New York Press, 2010, c2008
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (224 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9781438431833, 143843183X, 9781441658180, 1441658181, 1438431821
- OCLC
- ocn802049241
- Originally published: Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c2008.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- ""King of the Bowery""; ""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""
Subjects
- Legislators -- United States -- Biography.
- Politicians -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
- Political corruption -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
- New York (N.Y.) -- Politics and government -- 19th century.
- New York (N.Y.) -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
- New York (N.Y.) -- Biography.
- United States. Congress. House -- Biography.
- Tammany Hall -- History.
- Sullivan, Timothy Daniel, 1862-1913.