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 / Richard F. Welch.

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...

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Main Author: Welch, Richard F.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany : Excelsior Editions/State University of New York Press, 2010, ©2008.
Edition:1st Excelsior ed.
Subjects:
Sullivan, Timothy Daniel, > 1862-1913.
Sullivan, Timothy Daniel, > 1862-1913
United States. > Congress. > House > Biography.
Tammany Hall (Political organization) > History.
Tammany Hall (Political organization)
United States. > Congress. > House
1800-1999
Legislators > United States > Biography.
Politicians > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
Political corruption > New York (State) > New York > History.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
HISTORY > State & Local.
HISTORY > State & Local > General.
Legislators
Political corruption
Politics and government
Politicians
New York (N.Y.) > Politics and government > 19th century.
New York (N.Y.) > Politics and government > 20th century.
New York (N.Y.) > Biography.
New York (State) > New York
United States
Biographies
History
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