Once Upon a Time in New York: Jimmy Walker, Franklin Roosevelt, and the Last Great Battle of the Jazz Age
- List Price: $25.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Free Press
- Publish date: 01/01/2000
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With his custom-made clothes, his actress mistress, and his legion of low-life supporters, Jimmy Walker looms large as the most popular and most corrupt politician of our century. Yet, when New York's Tammany Hall corruption attracted national attention in the summer of 1932, pressure mounted for the governor of the state, Franklin D. Roosevelt, to take action. So FDR, on the eve of his presidential nomination, was faced with the most important political decision of his career: confront Mayor Walker and his tin-box brigade of dangerous felons, or support Walker and lose the respect and votes of Convention delegates from across the country.
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Jazz Age New York has been portrayed in many novels, plays, and musicals, but Herbert Mitgang's true tale of gambling, speakeasies, and good times is better than fiction. The great war for control of the greatest city in the world is as vivid as Ragtime or The Last Hurrah, and offers a riveting look at a forgotten chapter of FDR's rise to power.
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