Herbert James Hall

Mitgang, Herbert: Once Upon a Time in New York: Jimmy Walker, Franklin Roosevelt, and the Last Great Battle of the Jazz Age, New York Free Press; Simon & Schuster 2000 ; fester Einband / hard cover; Schutzumschlag / dust cover; 1. Ed. ISBN: 0684855798
0684855798 Very Good

xii, 259 pp., biblio., index; 25 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Tail corners lightly bumped. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "The Jazz Age in New York -- a legendary time in America's liveliest town. Flappers and speakeasies. Gangsters and gun molls. Organized crime and its handmaiden: political corruption. Almost everybody and everything had a price. It was a great time to be a politician in power -- if you knew how to play the game. It was also a time of larger-than-life personalities. Two men, once friends, were locked in a political death-match that would affect New York and indeed the fate of the nation. Jimmy Walker was the nightclubbing Night Mayor of New York. The elegant Beau James had more mob ties than suits (and he had lots of them, too). Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a patrician from Hyde Park on the Hudson Highlands, was governor of New York. He was a crusader with a distinguished lineage, but he still had to prove that his talents could match his presidential ambitions. The bellringer between the mayor and the governor began with a very real murder. Arnold (Big Arnie) Rothstein, a world-class gambler who reputedly fixed the 1919 World Series, was found shot in the gut near one of his Broadway haunts. He survived for a few days but would not reveal the killer's identity. With his death came a crackdown against the underworld and its crooked officials. Judge Samuel Seabury, an incorruptible outsider, was picked to head what was -- and still is -- the largest investigation of municipal corruption in American history. In the witness box before Seabury sat an endless parade of officials, all of whom seemed to be unusually adept at saving money -- the press called them the 'tin box brigade' for the tin boxes in which their private fortunes mysteriously blossomed. Each exposed official drew Seabury inexorably closer to City Hall and the popular rogue, Mayor Jimmy Walker. Taking advantage of the (rarely exercised) gubernatorial right to sit as judge for the investigation of major officials, Roosevelt brought things to a head when he personally prosecuted Walker in the summer of 1932, on the heels of the Democratic Convention. Roosevelt had much to lose. Behind Walker lurked Tammany Hall, the powerful Democratic political machine that ruled New York City. Prosecuting Walker was the final showdown in a war for control of the greatest city in the country's most populous state. Once Upon a Time in New York is a real-life fable, the story of two towering men in an irrepressible time. It is at once the story of Roosevelt's first great test the turning point of machine control in New York and the battle that marked the end of the Jazz Age way of political life. It is an unforgettable portrait of Roosevelt's courage, with a cast of gamblers and gun molls, murderers and mistresses. More outrageous than today's headlines and as lively as the era it describes, Once Upon a Time in New York reads like a nonfiction novel. / Herbert Mitgang covered national, international, and New York cultural subjects as editorial writer and correspondent for The New York Times. He is author or editor of fifteen books in American history, law, literature, reportage, and fiction; and he has served as president of both the Authors Guild and the Authors League Fund. A Pulitzer Prize finalist in biography, he is the winner of the George Polk Career Award. He currently contributes to The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Nation, Newsday, and the Chicago Tribune. He lives, of course, in New York City." - Publisher. First Edition, First Printing Fine Hard Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; First Edition, First Printing

[SW: Walker, James John, 1881-1946, New York (N, Y, ) Politics and government 1898-1951, Roosevelt, Franklin D, (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945, Political corruption New York (State) New York History 20th century, Corruption investigation New York (State) New York History 20th century, Tammany Hall, Walker, James John, 1881-1946 Friends and associates, Mayors New York (State) New York Biography, Governors New York (State) Biography]

Details

Giles, Rev. Dr.(ed); John Barbour, Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, James I of Scotland, Andrew Winton, Robert Henryson, Blind Harry, John Lydgate, William Dunbar, John Skelton, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Andrew Bourd, Gawain Douglas, Sir David Lindsay, Etc: Poetic Treasures or, Passages from the Poets Chronologically Arranged, London John Walker & Co. ; fester Einband / hard cover
Very Good +

li, 644 pp inc tissue-protected frontis and 7 other b&w plates, chronological and alphabetical indices to the poets and introduction - Undated but apparently 1880s. This volume includes works by (in chronological order): John Barbour, Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, James I of Scotland, Andrew Winton, Robert Henryson, Blind Harry, John Lydgate, William Dunbar, John Skelton, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Andrew Bourd, Gawain Douglas, Sir David Lindsay, Earl of Surrey, Sir Philip Sidney, Thomas Sackville, Christopher Marlowe, Sir Walter Raleigh, Edmund Spenser, Robert Southwell, Joshua Silvester, Fulk Greville, Simon Wastell, Sir John Wastell, Sir John Davies, William Shakespeare, Richard Barnfield, John Lilly, Sternhold and Hopkins, George Chapman, George Peele, Queen Elizabeth I, Sir John Harrington, Edward Fairfax, Michael Drayton, Sir Henry Wotton, John Donne, William Warner, Geoffry Whitney, Samuel Daniel, Ben Jonson, Francis Davison, John Marston, Joseph Hall, George Sandys, John Webster, Sir Thomas Overbury, Richard Corbet, William Drummond, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, Phineas Fletcher, Giles Fletcher, Philip Massinger, John Ford, George Wither, Thomas Carew, William Browne, Francei Quarles, Henry King, Robert Herrick, George Herbert, Isaac Walton, James Shirley, Charles I, William Harrington, Edmund Waller, Sir William Davenant, John Milton, and 338 other poets through to the end of the 19th Century. <BR> Covers (black, cushioned leather with gilt titles to front board and spine) is edgeworn esp at the corners and with a 1-inch by .5- inch open tear toward the top of the fore edge. AEG. Textblock is immaculate. No Jacket Leather 5 x 7.5"

[SW: Poetry, Verse, Anthology, John Barbour, Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, James I of Scotland, Andrew Winton, Robert Henryson, Blind Harry, John Lydgate, William Dunbar, John Skelton, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Andrew Bourd, Gawain Douglas, Sir David Lindsay, Earl of Surrey, Sir Philip Sidney, Thomas Sackville, Christopher Marlowe, Sir Walter Raleigh, Edmund Spenser, Robert Southwell, Joshua Silvester, Fulk Greville, Simon Wastell, Sir John Wastell, Sir John Davies, William Shakespeare, Richard Barnfield, John Lilly, Sternhold and Hopkins, George Chapman, George Peele, Queen Elizabeth I, Sir John Harrington, Edward Fairfax, Michael Drayton, Sir Henry Wotton, John Donne, William Warner, Geoffry Whitney, Samuel Daniel, Ben Jonson, Francis Davison, John Marston, Joseph Hall, George Sandys, John Webster, Sir Thomas Overbury, Richard Corbet, William Drummond, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, Phineas Fletcher, Giles Fletcher, Philip Massinger, John Ford, George Wither, Thomas Carew, William Browne, Francei Quarles, Henry King, Robert Herrick, George Herbert, Isaac Walton, James Shirley, Charles I, William Harrington, Edmund Waller, Sir William Davenant, John Milton, AntiquarianShakespeare Victoriana Antiquarian Leather Binding Anthologies Chaucer, Geoffrey Milton, John]

Details

R.V., Gold, Herbert, Hall, James B. Cassill: Fifteen By Three Fifteen Short Stories By R.V. Cassill, Herbert Gold, James B. Hall, New Directions 1957 ISBN: B000NO3X02
B000NO3X02 Fair

Acceptable condition used paperback with cover wear. Great reading copy! May have the previous owner's name inside front cover. Paperback

Details

Brinkley, William C. .(editor): The Journal of Southern History, Volume XII, No. 3 August, 1946, Lexington, KY Southern Historical Association; University of Kentucky Press 1946 ; weicher Einband / soft cover
Very Good

pp 310-466; items by/about:Wendell H. Stephenson (William Garrett Brown), Louis Morton (Robert Wormelay Carter of Sabine Hall, Virginia), Allen J. Going (Alabama Railroad Commission), Herbert Collins (Southern Industrial gospel), Samuel C. McCulloch (james Blair, Governor Francis Nicholson), Richard Beale Davis (Thomas Jefferson). Book Reviews, Etc clean, unmarked pages Soft Cover 8 vo Magazine

[SW: Wendell H. Stephenson (William Garrett Brown), Louis Morton (Robert Wormelay Carter of Sabine Hall, Virginia), Allen J. Going (Alabama Railroad Commission), Herbert Collins (Southern Industrial gospel), Samuel C. McCulloch (james Blair, Governor Francis Nicholson), Richard Beale Davis (Thomas Jefferson). Book Reviews, Etc]

Details