{"product_id":"king-of-the-bowery-richard-f-welch-9781438431826","title":"King of the Bowery: Big Tim Sullivan, Tammany Hall, and New York City from the Gilded Age to the Progressive Era","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first full-length biography of Timothy D. \"Big Tim\" Sullivan, who dominated New York City politics in the three decades prior to World War I.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eKing of the Bowery \u003c\/i\u003eis 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 charisma to become the most powerful single politician in New York, Sullivan was quick to perceive and embrace the shifting demographics of downtown New York, recruiting Jewish and Italian newcomers to his largely Irish machine to create one of the nation's first multiethnic political organizations. Though a master of the personal, paternalistic, and corrupt politics of the late nineteenth century, Sullivan paradoxically embraced a variety of progressive causes, especially labor and women's rights, anticipating many of the policies later pursued by his early acquaintances and sometimes antagonists Al Smith and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Drawing extensively on contemporary sources, \u003ci\u003eKing of the Bowery\u003c\/i\u003e offers a rich, readable, and authoritative potrayal of Gotham on the cusp of the modern age, as refracted through the life of a man who exemplified much of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard F. Welch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1438431821\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781438431826\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Excelsior Editions\/State University of New Yo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/20\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 222\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.74lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.22h x 6.34w x 0.56d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2010 pg. 68","brand":"Richard F. Welch","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48065577779455,"sku":"9781438431826","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_044675a5-fc0e-499c-be31-b8b6670a6593.jpg?v=1768675896","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/king-of-the-bowery-richard-f-welch-9781438431826","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}