City bosses in the United States ; a study of twenty municipal bosses / by Harold Zink.

Author/creator Zink, Harold
Format Book
Publication InfoDurham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1930.
Descriptionxi, 371 pages : frontispiece, portraits ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesDuke university publications
Duke University publications. ^A642176
Contents Boss backgrounds.--Personal characteristics of city bosses.--Domestic and social relations.--Municipal bosses and business.--From novice to boss.--Municipal bosses as politicians.--Is there a "typical" boss?--"Czar" Martin Lomasney (Boston).--"Big Tim" Sullivan (the Bowery).--"Honorable" William M. Tweed (New York).--"Honest John" Kelly (New York).--Richard Croker (New York).-- "Commissioner" Charles F. Murphy (New York).--"Judge" George W. Olvany (New York).--"Old Man" Hugh McLaughlin (Brooklyn).--"King" James McManes (Philadelphia).--"Judge" Israel W. Durham (Philadelphia).--"Duke" Edwin H. Vare (Philadeplhia).--Christopher Lyman Magee (Pittsburgh).--"Senator" William Flinn (Pittsburgh).--"Old Boy" George B. Cox (Cincinnati).--"The mystery man of Chicago" [Fre Lundin].--Roger C. Sullivan (Chicago).--"Colonel" Edward Butler (St. Louis.)--Martin Behrman (New Orlenas).--"The Genial Doctor" Albert A. Ames (Minneapolis).--Abraham Ruef (San Francisco).
LCCN 30031996

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