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Informed by unprecedented access to previously unavailable private papers, documents, family memorabilia, and photographs, this volume profiles the colorful mayor and the city he governed during its golden era
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“The Little Flower” matched his effectiveness in battling Tammany Hall on the stump with his success as the corruption-fighting Fusion mayor of New York. Kessner discusses how this much-loved figure (even the subject of a posthumous Pulitzer Prize-winning musical) initially frustrated O’Dwyer’s brother Bill (his Democratic successor in 1946) by winning for a third time in a row in 1941.
Kessner shows how he was integral to the making of modern New York. In death, New York’s most outstanding leader took on new luster among good-government advocates and many others when Bill’s time in Gracie Mansion was short-circuited by the…
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