King Of The Bowery

Author : Richard F. Welch
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781438431833

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King of the Bowery by Richard F. Welch Pdf

King of the Bowery is the first full-length biography of Timothy D. "Big Tim" Sullivan, the archetypal Tammany Hall leader who dominated New York City politics—and much of its social life—from 1890 to 1913. A poor Irish kid from the Five Points who rose through ambition, shrewdness, and charisma to become the most powerful single politician in New York, Sullivan was quick to perceive and embrace the shifting demographics of downtown New York, recruiting Jewish and Italian newcomers to his largely Irish machine to create one of the nation's first multiethnic political organizations. Though a master of the personal, paternalistic, and corrupt politics of the late nineteenth century, Sullivan paradoxically embraced a variety of progressive causes, especially labor and women's rights, anticipating many of the policies later pursued by his early acquaintances and sometimes antagonists Al Smith and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Drawing extensively on contemporary sources, King of the Bowery offers a rich, readable, and authoritative potrayal of Gotham on the cusp of the modern age, as refracted through the life of a man who exemplified much of it. "... a necessary book for anyone unsatisfied by the usual histories of Irish-American urban political machines. ... The Irish-American boss has rarely been awarded the careful appraisal of the kind that Welch ... gives Sullivan. ... But caveat lector: you don't have to be Irish American or a New Yorker or a Democrat to enjoy this book. All you have to be is interested in a well-told story that is also a first-rate work of history." — Peter Quinn, Commonweal

Author : Peter Adams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313043116

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The Bowery Boys by Peter Adams Pdf

In the decades before the Civil War, the miserable living conditions of New York City's lower east side nurtured the gangs of New York. This book tells the story of the Bowery Boys, one gang that emerged as part urban legend and part street fighters for the city's legions of young workers. Poverty and despair led to a gang culture that was easily politicized, especially under the leadership of Mike Walsh who led a distinct faction of the Bowery Boys that engaged in the violent, almost anarchic, politics of the city during the 1840s and 1850s. Amid the toppled ballot boxes and battles for supremacy on the streets, many New Yorkers feared Walsh's gang was at the frontline of a European-style revolution. A radical and immensely popular voice in antebellum New York, Walsh spoke in the unvarnished language of class conflict. Admired by Walt Whitman and feared by Tammany Hall, Walsh was an original, wildly unstable character who directed his aptly named Spartan Band against the economic and political elite of New York City and New England. As a labor organizer, state legislator, and even U.S. Congressman, the leader of the Bowery Boys fought for shorter working hours, the right to strike, free land for settlers on the American frontier, against child labor, and to restore dignity to the city's growing number of industrial workers.

Author : Gilad James, PhD
Publisher : Gilad James Mystery School
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9782229108866

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Introduction to John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum by Gilad James, PhD Pdf

The third installment in the John Wick franchise, "John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum", directed by Chad Stahelski, picks up immediately after the events of "John Wick: Chapter 2". The film follows an ex-hitman, John Wick (Keanu Reeves), who is now on the run after being declared "excommunicado" by the High Table, a secret organization of assassins who control the criminal underworld. With a 14 million dollar bounty on his head, Wick must fight his way through an army of skilled killers who are out to get him, while also trying to find a way to clear his name and restore his reputation. The film is filled with non-stop action sequences and intense fight scenes set against a backdrop of stunning locations, including New York City, Morocco, and the desert landscape of the High Table. The cast includes returning favorites such as Laurence Fishburne as the Bowery King, Ian McShane as Winston, and Lance Reddick as Charon, as well as newcomers such as Halle Berry as Sofia, a fellow assassin and ally of Wick's. "John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum" continues to satisfy fans of the series with its slick visuals, thrilling action, and intriguing mythology that expands upon the world of John Wick.

Author : Leonard Getz
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786487424

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From Broadway to the Bowery by Leonard Getz Pdf

In 1935 Sidney Kingsley's play about streetwise urban kids, Dead End, opened on Broadway featuring 14 adolescent actors. For two years on Broadway and then on tour, Kingsley's play delivered its social commentary contrasting affluent neighborhoods and tenement slums on New York City's East River. The film industry picked up the story and in 1937 released Dead End which spawned 23 more years of films and serials featuring the Dead End Kids and their offshoots, Little Tough Guys, East Side Kids and the Bowery Boys. This chronicle follows the street kids through the many assorted incarnations, shifting casts and studios. First the reader is introduced to how the original play and film came about. A cast list and analysis of each production follows. For the major players, the author provides a biography and filmography, and several of these entries include a tribute from a friend or family member. Brief biographical profiles are given for other actors. Sketches of the "Dead End" revivals of 1978 and 2005 follow.

Author : Caitlin G. Watt,Stephen Watt
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780253062420

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The Worlds of John Wick by Caitlin G. Watt,Stephen Watt Pdf

Each John Wick film has earned more money and recognition than its predecessor, defying the conventional wisdom about the box office's action movie landscape, normally dominated by superhero movies and science fiction epics. As The Worlds of John Wick explores, the worldbuilding of John Wick offers thrills that you simply can't find anywhere else. The franchise's plot combines familiar elements of the revenge thriller and crime film with seamlessly coordinated action. One of its most distinctive appeals, however, is the detailed and multifaceted fictional world—or rather, worlds—it constructs. The contributors to this volume consider everything from fight sequences, action aesthetics, and stunts to grief, cinematic space and time, and gender performance to map these worlds and explore how their range and depth make John Wick a hit. A deep dive into this popular neo-noir franchise, The Worlds of John Wick celebrates and complicates the cult phenomenon that is John Wick.

Author : Rosemarie K. Bank
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1997-01-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521563879

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Theatre Culture in America, 1825-1860 by Rosemarie K. Bank Pdf

A study of pre-Civil War American theatre.

Author : Eric Jaffe
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439176108

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The King's Best Highway by Eric Jaffe Pdf

A VIVID AND FASCINATING LOOK AT AMERICAN HISTORY THROUGH THE PRISM OF THE COUNTRY’S MOST STORIED HIGHWAY, THE BOSTON POST ROAD During its evolution from Indian trails to modern interstates, the Boston Post Road, a system of over-land routes between New York City and Boston, has carried not just travelers and mail but the march of American history itself. Eric Jaffe captures the progress of people and culture along the road through four centuries, from its earliest days as the king of England’s “best highway” to the current era. Centuries before the telephone, radio, or Internet, the Boston Post Road was the primary conduit of America’s prosperity and growth. News, rumor, political intrigue, financial transactions, and personal missives traveled with increasing rapidity, as did people from every walk of life. From post riders bearing the alarms of revolution, to coaches carrying George Washington on his first presidential tour, to railroads transporting soldiers to the Civil War, the Boston Post Road has been essential to the political, economic, and social development of the United States. Continuously raised, improved, rerouted, and widened for faster and heavier traffic, the road played a key role in the advent of newspapers, stagecoach travel, textiles, mass-produced bicycles and guns, commuter railroads, automobiles—even Manhattan’s modern grid. Many famous Americans traveled the highway, and it drew the keen attention of such diverse personages as Benjamin Franklin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, P. T. Barnum, J. P. Morgan, and Robert Moses. Eric Jaffe weaves this entertaining narrative with a historian’s eye for detail and a journalist’s flair for storytelling. A cast of historical figures, celebrated and unknown alike, tells the lost tale of this road. Revolutionary printer William Goddard created a postal network that united the colonies against the throne. General Washington struggled to hold the highway during the battle for Manhattan. Levi Pease convinced Americans to travel by stagecoach until, half a century later, Nathan Hale convinced them to go by train. Abe Lincoln, still a dark-horse candidate in early 1860, embarked on a railroad speaking tour along the route that clinched the presidency. Bomb builder Lester Barlow, inspired by the Post Road’s notorious traffic, nearly sold Congress on a national system of expressways twenty-five years before the Interstate Highway Act of 1956. Based on extensive travels of the highway, interviews with people living up and down the road, and primary sources unearthed from the great libraries between New York City and Boston—including letters, maps, contemporaneous newspapers, and long-forgotten government documents—The King’s Best Highway is a delightful read for American history buffs and lovers of narrative everywhere.

Author : George Wolfe Shinn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Anglican church buildings
ISBN : UOM:39015005282119

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King's Handbook of Notable Episcopal Churches in the United States by George Wolfe Shinn Pdf

Author : Rogers Ruding
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1817
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z221276203

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Annals Of The Corinage Of Britain And Its Dependencies From The Earliest Period Of Authentick History To The End Of The 50 Year Of The Reign ... Georg III by Rogers Ruding Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Carpets
ISBN : NYPL:33433060478264

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The Carpet and Upholstery Trade Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mike Dash
Publisher : Crown
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307395221

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Satan's Circus by Mike Dash Pdf

They called it Satan’s Circus—a square mile of Midtown Manhattan where vice ruled, sin flourished, and depravity danced in every doorway. At the turn of the twentieth century, it was a place where everyone from the chorus girls to the beat cops was on the take and where bad boys became wicked men; a place where an upstanding young policeman such as Charley Becker could become the crookedest cop who ever stood behind a shield. Murder was so common in the vice district that few people were surprised when the loudmouthed owner of a shabby casino was gunned down on the steps of its best hotel. But when, two weeks later, an ambitious district attorney charged Becker with ordering the murder, even the denizens of Satan’s Circus were surprised. The handsome lieutenant was a decorated hero, the renowned leader of New York’s vice-busting Special Squad. Was he a bad cop leading a double life, or a pawn felled by the sinister rogues who ran Manhattan’s underworld? With appearances by the legendary and the notorious—including Big Tim Sullivan, the election-rigging vice lord of Tammany Hall; future president Theodore Roosevelt; beloved gangster Jack Zelig; and the newly famous author Stephen Crane—Satan’s Circus brings to life an almost-forgotten Gotham. Chronicling Charley Becker’s rise and fall, the book tells of the raucous, gaudy, and utterly corrupt city that made him, and recounts not one but two sensational murder trials that landed him in the electric chair.

Author : Amelia E. Barr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044019786433

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The King's Highway by Amelia E. Barr Pdf

Author : Cheyna Roth
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-21
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781646045648

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Between Two Wars: A True Crime Collection by Cheyna Roth Pdf

Discover the most fascinating crimes committed between two of the greatest wars ever fought, from America’s first train robbery by the Reno brothers in 1866, to alleged killings at the H. H. Holmes Murder Castle in 1893, to the Rumrich Nazi spy case in 1938, and much more. The era from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of World War II was a dynamic and evolving time for murderers, thieves, gangsters and more. Train robberies, presidential assassinations, high-profile heists, and serial murders are just a selection of what occurred between the 1860s and the 1930s. Between Two Wars: A True Crime Collection includes a curated mix of both familiar and less-infamous cases. Tour through the carnage of 1880s Chicago as H.H. Holmes builds his Murder Castle. Learn about the significance of the less famous presidential assassination of the 1800s—of President James Garfield. At the turn of the century, find out why the theft of the Mona Lisa made the piece the famous work of art it is today, and discover the impact of the Black mafia with John “Mushmouth” Johnson, the infamous “Negro Gambling King of Chicago.” The full list of cases includes: - (1866) The Reno brothers and the first train robbery in America - (1878) George Leslie, a high society bank robber - (1881) Assassination of President James Garfield - (1893) H.H. Holmes Murder Castle and the Columbian Exposition - (1890s –1907) John “Mushmouth” Johnson, the “Negro Gambling King of Chicago” - (1911) The theft of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa - (1926) Disappearance of Agatha Christie - (1933) Kansas City Massacre - (1938) Rumrich Nazi Spy Case Written for murderinos, true crime junkies, and history buffs, Between Two Wars reads like you’re having a conversation with a friend or listening to your favorite true crime podcast.

Author : Andrew S. Finstuen
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0807898538

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Original Sin and Everyday Protestants by Andrew S. Finstuen Pdf

In the years following World War II, American Protestantism experienced tremendous growth, but conventional wisdom holds that midcentury Protestants practiced an optimistic, progressive, complacent, and materialist faith. In Original Sin and Everyday Protestants, historian Andrew Finstuen argues against this prevailing view, showing that theological issues in general--and the ancient Christian doctrine of original sin in particular--became newly important to both the culture at large and to a generation of American Protestants during a postwar "age of anxiety" as the Cold War took root. Finstuen focuses on three giants of Protestant thought--Billy Graham, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Paul Tillich--men who were among the era's best known public figures. He argues that each thinker's strong commitment to the doctrine of original sin was a powerful element of the broad public influence that they enjoyed. Drawing on extensive correspondence from everyday Protestants, the book captures the voices of the people in the pews, revealing that the ordinary, rank-and-file Protestants were indeed thinking about Christian doctrine and especially about "good" and "evil" in human nature. Finstuen concludes that the theological concerns of ordinary American Christians were generally more complicated and serious than is commonly assumed, correcting the view that postwar American culture was becoming more and more secular from the late 1940s through the 1950s.

Author : Elizabeth Williams Champney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433082520564

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Witch Winnie. The Story of a "King's Daughter." [With Plates.] by Elizabeth Williams Champney Pdf