King of the Bowery : Big Tim Sullivan, Tammany Hall, and New York City from the Gilded Age to the Progressive Era

King of the Bowery : Big Tim Sullivan, Tammany Hall, and New York City from the Gilded Age to the Progressive Era /

King of the Bowery is the first full-length biography of Timothy D. "Big Tim" Sullivan, the archetypal Tammany Hall leader who dominated New York City politics—and much of its social life—from 1890 to 1913. A poor Irish kid from the Five Points who rose through ambition, shrewdness, and ch...

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Main Author: Welch, Richard F.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany : Excelsior Editions/State University of New York Press, 2010
Edition:1st Excelsior ed.
Subjects:
Sullivan, Timothy Daniel, > 1862-1913.
United States. > Congress. > House > Biography.
Tammany Hall (Political organization) > History.
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.
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