Rogues and redeemers : when politics was king in Irish Boston
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Author
Published
New York : Crown Publishers, [2012].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780307405364, 0307405362
Physical Desc
401 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
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Published
New York : Crown Publishers, [2012].
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
ISBN
9780307405364, 0307405362
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
This book is a behind-the-scenes portrait of the Irish power brokers who forged and fractured twentieth-century Boston. It tells the hidden story of Boston politics, the cold blooded ward bosses, the smoke-filled rooms, the larger-than-life pols who became national figures. It includes Honey Fitz, the crafty stage Irishman and grandfather to a president; the pugilistic Rascal King, Michael Curley; the hectored Kevin White who tried to hold the city together during the busing crisis; and Ray Flynn, the Southie charmer who was truly the last hurrah for Irish-American politics in the city. For almost a century, the Irish dominated Boston politics with their own unique, clannish brand of coercion and shaped its future for good and ill. The author, a former Boston Globe investigative reporter takes the reader through the entire journey from the famine ships arriving in Massachusetts Bay to the wresting of power away from the Brahmins of Beacon Hill to the Title I wars of attrition over housing to the rending of the city over busing to the Boston of today, which somehow through it all became a modern, revitalized city, albeit with a growing divide between the haves and have-nots.
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Morris County Library - Adult Nonfiction | 974.461 O'NE | Available |
Subjects
LC Subjects
Boston (Mass.) -- Biography.
Boston (Mass.) -- Politics and government.
Irish Americans -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Biography.
Irish Americans -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History.
Irish Americans -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Politics and government.
Political culture -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History.
Politicians -- Family relationships -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History.
Politicians -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Biography.
Politicians -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History.
Boston (Mass.) -- Politics and government.
Irish Americans -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Biography.
Irish Americans -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History.
Irish Americans -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Politics and government.
Political culture -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History.
Politicians -- Family relationships -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History.
Politicians -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Biography.
Politicians -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
O'Neill, G. (2012). Rogues and redeemers: when politics was king in Irish Boston (First edition.). Crown Publishers.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)O'Neill, Gerard. 2012. Rogues and Redeemers: When Politics Was King in Irish Boston. Crown Publishers.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)O'Neill, Gerard. Rogues and Redeemers: When Politics Was King in Irish Boston Crown Publishers, 2012.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)O'Neill, Gerard. Rogues and Redeemers: When Politics Was King in Irish Boston First edition., Crown Publishers, 2012.
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