Title: Once upon a Time in New York: Jimmy Walker, Franklin Roosevelt, and the Last Great Battle of the Jazz Age
Publisher: The Free Press
Publication Date: 2000
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0684855798
ISBN 13: 9780684855790
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good

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The 1932 battle between corrupt Tammany Hall New York City Mayor Jimmy Walker and then-governor of New York Franklin D. Roosevelt is chronicled exquisitely in this Jazz Age political drama spiced with illegal gambling, speakeasies, actress mistresses, and dangerous criminals.

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Herbert Mitgang covered national, international, and New York cultural subjects as editorial writer and correspondent for The New York Times. He is author or editor of fifteen books in American history, law, literature, reportage, and fiction; and he has served as president of both the Authors Guild and the Authors League Fund. A Pulitzer Prize finalist in biography, he is the winner of the George Polk Career Award. He currently contributes to The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Nation, Newsday, and the Chicago Tribune. He lives, of course, in New York City.

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