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1 online resource (929 pages) |
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Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Photographs; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 November 27, 1963: The Troubling Public Introduction; A private man in public life; The forgotten speakership; John McCormack "in the room"; The political dimension: Preserving the New Deal and containing race politics; The personal dimension: Poverty and probity; Notes; Chapter 2 Irish Emigration and the Cauldron of Yankee Boston; Boston transformed; Notes; Chapter 3 The Reinvention of John McCormack; The first tombstone, Sandbanks in Watertown; The family shrinks; The fatherless family |
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The post-Census changes The first step; Knocko and Buttons, the surviving brothers; Knocko McCormack: A local icon; Knocko's family; The Canadian shadow; John McCormack completes the reinvention; The second tombstone, Mount Benedict, West Roxbury; Complementary identities; Notes; Chapter 4 The Ascent: Yankee Mentors, Irish Gatekeepers, and Harriet; William Way and Charles Innes: Two Yankee Protestant mentors; Charles Innes, the Great Poobah; The Fitzgerald-Curley feud and its lingering impact; The Lodge-Fitzgerald Senate contest, 1916; The Irish card; Stopping Curley |
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John's testing begins: The Constitutional ConventionSergeant John McCormack; A city in peril: The Boston Police Strike; Curley returns to City Hall; M. Harriet Joyce; Notes; Chapter 5 From Beacon Hill to Capitol Hill; International reshuffling and domestic discord; Prohibition: The triumph of rural Protestant America; Boston: An epicenter of panic; Crime and corruption, the ethnics' revenge; South Boston's Gustin Gang; The General Court; The entwining of John's political and legal careers; Henry Lee Shattuck, a new Brahmin mentor; The return of a dead man; State Senator McCormack |
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The quest for the 12th: Waiting for Jim Gallivan The young challenger; From South Station to Union Station: John McCormack, the member from Massachusetts; To the nation's Capitol; Notes; Chapter 6 The 1928-33 Game Change; The First House Majority and Speaker Cactus Jack Garner; Hoover's political collapse; The 1932 Democratic Convention; FDR's first presidential victory; Notes; Chapter 7 The New Deal and a National Stage; Franklin Roosevelt's First Congress; John McCormack and the South; A leading sponsor, John McDuffie of Alabama; Congress convenes and an early rival; The 100 days |
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A mysterious Boston ally: David K. Niles and FERABoston and the New Deal, Jim Curley's next moves; Harbingers of hate; The Special House Committee on Un-American Activities; Another new Speaker and a renewed mandate; Containing the Tammany tiger; Social Security Act of 1935; Another speakership vacancy; Notes; Chapter 8 The Problematic Landslide: Court-Packing and Purges; The 1936 presidential nomination and election; The 1936 election in Boston, the "most Coughlinite city"; Another leadership contest; Dean of the delegation; The cities and the South struggle for Democratic preeminence |
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The city constituencies |
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Print version record |
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McCormack, John W., 1891-1980.
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McCormack, John W., 1891-1980 fast |
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United States. Congress. House -- Speakers -- Biography
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United States. Congress. House -- Biography
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United States. Congress. House fast |
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Legislators -- United States -- Biography
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Legislators
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Orators
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Politics and government
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1961-1963. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140469
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1963-1969. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140470
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United States
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Biographies
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781628925173 |
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1628925175 |
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