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Chargement... The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley, 1874-1958par Jack Beatty
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. 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. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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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. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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