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Author : Francis Russell
Publisher : Quinlan Press (MA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Knave of Boston written by Francis Russell and published by Quinlan Press (MA). This book was released on 1987 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas H. O'Connor
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781555534745
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (347 download)
Download or read book The Hub written by Thomas H. O'Connor and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2001 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with local events as well as intriguing characters, this engaging account vividly captures the spirit and soul of Boston, both yesterday and today."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Gerard O'Neill
Publisher : Crown Publishing Group (NY)
ISBN 13 : 0307405362
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Rogues and Redeemers written by Gerard O'Neill and published by Crown Publishing Group (NY). This book was released on 2012 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling coauthor of Black Mass, a behind-the-scenes portrait of the Irish power brokers who forged and fractured twentieth-century Boston. Rogues and Redeemers 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: 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. Former Boston Globe investigative reporter Gerard O'Neill 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. Sweeping in its history and intimate in its details, Rogues and Redeemers echoes all the great themes of The Power Broker and Common Ground and should take its place on that esteemed shelf as a classic, definitive epic of a city.
Author : Marc Songini
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312373635
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (123 download)
Download or read book Boston Mob written by Marc Songini and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New England Mafia was a hugely powerful organization that survived by using violence to ruthlessly crush anyone that threatened it, or its lucrative gambling, loansharking, bootlegging and other enterprises. Psychopathic strongman Joseph "The Animal" Barboza was one of the most feared mob enforcers of all time, killing as many as thirty people for business and pleasure. From information based on newly declassified documents and the use of underworld sources, Boston Mob spans the gutters and alleyways of East Boston, Providence and Charlestown to the halls of Congress in Washington D.C. and Boston's Beacon Hill. Its players include governors and mayors, and the Mafia Commission of New York City. From the tragic legacy of the Kennedy family to the Winter Hill-Charlestown feud, the fall of the New England Mafia and the rise of Whitey Bulger, Mark Songini's Boston Mob is a saga of treachery, murder, greed, and the survival of ruthless men pitted against legal systems and police forces.
Author : Neil Miller
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 080705111X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Banned in Boston written by Neil Miller and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively history of the Watch and Ward Society--New England's notorious literary censor for over eighty years. Banned in Boston is the first-ever history of the Watch and Ward Society--once Boston's unofficial moral guardian. An influential watchdog organization, bankrolled by society's upper crust, it actively suppressed vices like gambling and prostitution, and oversaw the mass censorship of books and plays. A spectacular romp through the Puritan City, here Neil Miller relates the scintillating story of how a powerful band of Brahmin moral crusaders helped make Boston the most straitlaced city in America, forever linked with the infamous catchphrase "banned in Boston."
Author : Garrison Nelson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1628925183
Total Pages : 748 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)
Download or read book John William McCormack written by Garrison Nelson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-03-23 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first biography of U.S. House Speaker John W. McCormack, author Garrison Nelson uncovers previously forgotten FBI files, birth and death records, and correspondence long thought lost or buried. For such an influential figure, McCormack tried to dismiss the past, almost erasing his legacy from the public's mind. John William McCormack: A Political Biography sheds light on the behind-the-curtain machinations of American politics and the origins of the modern-day Democratic party, facilitated through McCormack's triumphs. McCormack overcame desperate poverty and family tragedy in the Irish ghetto of South Boston to hold the second-most powerful position in the nation. By reinventing his family history to elude Irish Boston's powerful political gatekeepers, McCormack embarked on a 1928 - 1971 House career and from 1939-71, the longest house leadership career. Working with every president from Coolidge to Nixon, McCormack's social welfare agenda, which included Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, immigration reform, and civil rights legislation helped commit the nation to the welfare of its most vulnerable citizens. By helping create the Austin-Boston Connection, McCormack reshaped the Democratic Party from a regional southern white Protestant party to one that embraced urban religiously and racially diverse ethnics. A man free of prejudice, John McCormack was the Boston Brahmin's favorite Irishman, the South's favorite northerner, and known in Boston as "Rabbi John," the Jews' favorite Catholic.
Author : Hoffmann (Professor)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Cyclopædia of Card and Table Games written by Hoffmann (Professor) and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter F. Stevens
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467147079
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Untold Tales of the Boston Irish written by Peter F. Stevens and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it comes to the Boston Irish, names such as Bulger and Curley have long shaped the local turf. But most people are probably unaware of some of the most amazing and forgotten Irish men and women who helped mold this city. There was Patrick Gilmore, America's first famed bandleader. Louis Sullivan was the "Father of the Skyscraper." Other colorful characters included Patsy Donovan, the man who discovered Babe Ruth, and Ann "Goody" Glover, whose horrifying ordeal launched the Salem Witch Trials. Although each played a noteworthy role in his or her era, all have been unjustly forgotten. Local author Peter Stevens uncovers the missing pieces of the Irish experience in Boston.
Author : Mitchell Zuckoff
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812968360
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Ponzi's Scheme written by Mitchell Zuckoff and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2006-01-10 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was a time when anything seemed possible–instant wealth, glittering fame, fabulous luxury–and for a run of magical weeks in the spring and summer of 1920, Charles Ponzi made it all come true. Promising to double investors’ money in three months, the dapper, charming Ponzi raised the “rob Peter to pay Paul” scam to an art form. At the peak of his success, Ponzi was raking in more than $2 million a week at his office in downtown Boston. Then his house of cards came crashing down–thanks in large part to the relentless investigative reporting of Richard Grozier’s Boston Post. A classic American tale of immigrant life and the dream of success, Ponzi’s Scheme is the amazing story of the magnetic scoundrel who launched the most successful scheme of financial alchemy in modern history.
Author : Gerard O'Neill
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307952797
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Rogues and Redeemers written by Gerard O'Neill and published by Crown. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling coauthor of Black Mass, a behind-the-scenes portrait of the Irish power brokers who forged and fractured twentieth-century Boston. Rogues and Redeemers 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: 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. Former Boston Globe investigative reporter Gerard O'Neill 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. Sweeping in its history and intimate in its details, Rogues and Redeemers echoes all the great themes of The Power Broker and Common Ground and should take its place on that esteemed shelf as a classic, definitive epic of a city.
Author : Donald Hubbard
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786434554
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book The Heavenly Twins of Boston Baseball written by Donald Hubbard and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2008-08-07 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baseball was a rough sport in the nineteenth century and no one played the game with more vigor (and often violence) than Hall of Famers Hugh Duffy and Tommy McCarthy, dubbed "The Heavenly Twins." This book details their professional history playing for Boston Beaneaters teams and personal experiences with baseball, faith, and legendary Boston baseball scribe Tim Murnane. The book also traces their minor league careers and post-professional baseball activities.
Author : Thomas H. O'Connor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Boston Irish written by Thomas H. O'Connor and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The best recounting of the contemporary scene that I have seen." -- New York Times Book Review
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book The Boston Weekly Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1805 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Herbert Stuart Stone
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book First editions of American authors written by Herbert Stuart Stone and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Justin Winsor
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385431530
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (854 download)
Download or read book The Memorial History of Boston. Including Suffolk County, Massachusetts. 1630-1880 written by Justin Winsor and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-25 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Author : Boston Athenaeum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.L/5 ( download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Boston Athenæum written by Boston Athenaeum and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Boston Athenaeum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Boston Athenaeum written by Boston Athenaeum and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
