Description: The first full-length biography of Timothy D. "Big Tim" Sullivan, who dominated New York City politics in the three decades prior to World War I.
Review Quotes:
"... 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