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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 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Welch, Richard F.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Madison, N.J. : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2008]
Subjects:
Sullivan, Timothy Daniel, > 1862-1913.
Legislators > United States > Biography.
United States. > Congress. > House > Biography.
Politicians > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
Tammany Hall (Political organization) > History.
New York (N.Y.) > Politics and government > 19th century.
New York (N.Y.) > Politics and government > 20th century.
Political corruption > New York (State) > New York > History.
New York (N.Y.) > Biography.
Table of 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.