Mr. Democrat
Subtitle: Jim Farley, the New Deal and the Making of Modern American Politics
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: May 25, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780472069309
Subjects: Political Science; Biography / Autobiography; Politics/International Relations; Historical - U.S.; Political; Political Science / Political Parties; Political Process - Political Parties; Biography; New Deal, 1933-1939; Politicians; Postmasters general; United States
First sentence: In the last decades of the nineteenth century, Grassy Point, New York, a small, mostly Irish American settlement, tucked away in the far northeast corner of Rockland County, consisted of little more than a wide bend in the road between the towns of Haverstraw and Stony Point.