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O Albany!
Improbable City of Political Wizards, Fearless Ethnics, Spectacular, Aristocrats, Splendid Nobodies, and Underrated Scoundrels
Por KENNEDY
Sinopsis
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ironweed offers an eloquent history of his colorful hometown in this marvelous book thats part journalism and part memoir.
William Kennedys celebrated cycle of novels has put Albany on the literary map. In O Albany! we visit the citys ethnic and social neighborhoods. We meet uncommon characters who tread on Kennedys stage—Erastus Corning, Americas longest-running mayor (forty-three years in office); the Prohibition celebrity Jack "Legs" Diamond; the black matriarch Olivia Rorie, who transformed Albanys slums; Nelson Rockefeller and the "greatest marble project in the history of the world"; the political boss Dan OConnell, who took City Hall in 1921 and never let go, even after he died.
Embellished with fifty-five vintage photographs and eleven maps drawn for this book, O Albany! is a historical lover letter from Kennedy to his native city.
“A nice blend of nostalgia and serious history...You come away from this books fascinating view of the American experience, the human experience, feeling hopeful.”—The New York Times Book Review
William Kennedys celebrated cycle of novels has put Albany on the literary map. In O Albany! we visit the citys ethnic and social neighborhoods. We meet uncommon characters who tread on Kennedys stage—Erastus Corning, Americas longest-running mayor (forty-three years in office); the Prohibition celebrity Jack "Legs" Diamond; the black matriarch Olivia Rorie, who transformed Albanys slums; Nelson Rockefeller and the "greatest marble project in the history of the world"; the political boss Dan OConnell, who took City Hall in 1921 and never let go, even after he died.
Embellished with fifty-five vintage photographs and eleven maps drawn for this book, O Albany! is a historical lover letter from Kennedy to his native city.
“A nice blend of nostalgia and serious history...You come away from this books fascinating view of the American experience, the human experience, feeling hopeful.”—The New York Times Book Review
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Ficha Técnica
Editorial: Penguin Books
ISBN: 9781101665947
Fecha de lanzamiento: 03/09/1985
Colección:
Penguin Novela (Penguin)
Penguin Novela (Penguin)
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