{"product_id":"crowbar-governor-kevin-murphy-9780819570741","title":"Crowbar Governor: The Life and Times of Morgan Gardner Bulkeley","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFirst biography of one of Connecticut's most colorful and notorious statesmen\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile president of Aetna Life from 1879 to 1922, Morgan Bulkeley served four terms as mayor of Hartford, two terms as Connecticut's governor, and one term as a United States senator. His friends and business and political acquaintances were a who's who of the Gilded Age: Samuel Clemens, J. P. Morgan, Samuel and Elizabeth Colt, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker, Albert Spalding, General Sherman, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Katharine Hepburn, as well as every president from Ulysses Grant to Warren Harding. In 1874 Bulkeley formed the Hartford Dark Blues who soon joined the unruly National Association, antecedent of the National League. He served as the league's first president for a year, and was later elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. It was during Bulkeley's controversial \"holdover\" term as governor that he earned the nickname \"Crowbar Governor.\" He used a crowbar to remove a lock that had been placed on his office door after refusing to vacate the governor's chambers on a technicality. Written in classic storyteller fashion, and augmented by copious research, Crowbar Governor offers readers a privileged glimpse into life and politics in Connecticut during the Gilded Age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kevin Murphy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0819570745\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780819570741\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wesleyan University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.46w x 1.07d","brand":"Kevin Murphy","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48441361826047,"sku":"9780819570741","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9cc36c9c-a46a-430e-9ff3-2e96fe9fe5e9.jpg?v=1777190409","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/crowbar-governor-kevin-murphy-9780819570741","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}