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The Rascal King by Jack Beatty
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.
Beatty, Jack: - Jack Beatty is On Point's news analyst and a longtime senior editor at The Atlantic Monthly. He joined The Atlantic in September of 1983, having previously worked as a book reviewer at Newsweek and as the literary editor of The New Republic. Beatty is the author of The Rascal King (1992), a biography of the legendary Boston mayor James Michael Curly that was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award; The World According to Peter Drucker (1998), an intellectual biography of the social thinker and management theorist; and Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America, 1865-1900 (2007), a thematic history of the Gilded Age. In addition, he is the editor of Colossus: How the Corporation Changed America (2001), an anthology of readings on the history of the American corporation named by Business Week as one of the Ten Best Business Books of the year. He has received a Guggenheim fellowship, two fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, an Olive Branch Award from New York University, a William Allen White Award for criticism from the University of Kansas, and an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. Born and raised in Boston, Beatty now lives in Hanover, New Hampshire.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780201626179 |
| ISBN 10 | 0201626179 |
| Titel | The Rascal King |
| Autor | Jack Beatty |
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| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Hachette Books |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 1993-09-01 |
| Seitenanzahl | 592 |
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