The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley (1874-1958)

The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley (1874-1958)

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9780306810022
Publisher: Little, Brown
Imprint: Da Capo Press
Pub date:
Language: English
Number of pages: 620
Weight: 808g
Height: 225mm
Width: 153mm
Spine width: 37mm