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Bezig met laden... The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley, 1874-1958door Jack Beatty
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. 4304 The Rascal King The Life and Times of James Michael Curley 1874-1958, by Jack Beatty (read 23 Apr 2007) Curley was mayor of Boston four times, in Congress for three years, and governor from 1935 to 1937. He had a tremendous hold on his political supporters, despite the crooked things he did. The account of his political doings is full of interest. He was always running for something and sometimes he did good things, even though he went to prison twice and should have been there oftener. He inspired the novel The Great Hurrah, which I read May 28, 1961, and gloried in its depiction of a guy like him. Curley in a way was like Huey Long, but fortunately Curley could be beaten at times, whereas Long could not be, no matter how crooked he was. This is a great political biography. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Twice-jailed scoundrel and the people's champion, builder of hospitals and schools and shameless grafter, compelling orator and master of political farce, James Michael Curley was the stuff of legend long before his life became fiction in Edwin O'Connor's classic novel The Last Hurrah. As mayor of Boston, as congressman, as governor of Massachusetts, Curley rose from the Irish slums in a career extending from the Progressive Era of Teddy Roosevelt to the ascendancy of JFK. Beatty's spellbinding story of this remarkable man-and of his city, his people, and his times-is biography at its best. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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