O Albany

Author : William Kennedy
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101665947
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book O Albany! written by William Kennedy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1985-09-03 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kennedy's O Albany! is in part the non-fictional stories he covered in his novels, Legs and Billy Phelan's Greatest Game. Kennedy retells the exploits of the bootlegger Jack 'Legs' Diamond, the bungled 1933 kidnapping of John O'Connell, Jr., heir to the Albany Democratic machine and explores the Albany of his past, including its demographics and vanished neighborhoods.

Author : Frank S. Robinson
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781412827751
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Machine Politics written by Frank S. Robinson and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Dunn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692348994
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kidnapping the Prince of Albany written by James Dunn and published by . This book was released on 2014-11-03 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True story of the John O'Connell kidnapping of 1933 in Albany NY.

Author : William Kennedy
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0140063404
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Billy Phelan's Greatest Game written by William Kennedy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1983-01-27 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second novel in William Kennedy’s much-loved Albany cycle depicts Billy Phelan, a slightly tarnished poker player, pool hustler, and small-time bookie. A resourceful man full of Irish pluck, Billy works the fringes of the Albany sporting life with his own particular style and private code of honor, until he finds himself in the dangerous position of potential go-between in the kidnapping of a political boss’s son.

Author : William Kennedy
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1849838364
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ironweed written by William Kennedy and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-12-22 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, basis of the film starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep. Francis Phelan, ex-big-leaguer, part-time gravedigger, full-time bum with the gift of gab, is back in town. He left Albany twenty-two years earlier after he dropped his infant son accidentally, and the boy died. Now he's on the way back to the wife and home he abandoned, haunted at every corner by the ghosts of his violent life. Francis; his wino ladyfriend of nine years, Helen; and his stumblebum pal, Rudy, shuffle their ragtag way through the city's bleakest streets, surviving on gumption, muscatel, and black wit. estiny is not their business. 'The premise of Ironweed was so unpromising, that in marketing terms the writer still to this day finds it funny: the story of a bunch of itinerant alcoholics, knocking around Kennedy's hometown, falling out, having visions, trying to pass for sober to cadge a bed for the night in the homeless shelter.' Guardian 'But for all the rich variety of prose and event, from hallucination to bedrock realism to slapstick and to blessed quotidian peace, ''Ironweed'' is more austere than its predecessors. It is more fierce, but also more forgiving.' Quoted from the classic New York Times review of Ironweed, which made it an overnight sensation.

Author : William Kennedy
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0140064842
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legs written by William Kennedy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1983-01-27 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legs, the inaugural book in William Kennedy’s acclaimed Albany cycle of novels, brilliantly evokes the flamboyant career of gangster Jack “Legs” Diamond. Through the equivocal eyes of Diamond’s attorney, Marcus Gorman (who scraps a promising political career for the more elemental excitement of the criminal underworld), we watch as Legs and his showgirl mistress, Kiki Roberts, blaze their gaudy trail across the tabloid pages of the 1920s and 1930s.

Author : New York (State). Secretary's Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Calendar of Historical Manuscripts in the Office of the Secretary of State, Albany, N.Y. written by New York (State). Secretary's Office and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : A.J. Albany
Publisher : Tin House Books
ISBN 13 : 1935639773
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Low Down: Junk, Jazz, and Other Fairy Tales from Childhood written by A.J. Albany and published by Tin House Books. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wise beyond her years and hip to the unpredictable ways of life at all too early an age, A.J. Albany guides us through dope and deviance of the late 1960s and early 1970s in Hollywood shadowy underbelly and beyond. A. J. Albany's recollection of life with her father, the great jazz pianist Joe Albany, is the story of one girl's unsentimental education. Joe played with the likes of Charles Mingus, Lester Young, and Charlie Parker, but between gigs he slipped into drug-induced obscurity. It was during these times that his daughter knew him best. After her mother disappeared, six-year-old Amy Jo and her charming, troubled father set up housekeeping in a seamy Hollywood hotel. While Joe finished a set in some red-boothed dive, chances were you'd find Amy curled up to sleep on someone's fur coat, clutching a 78 of Louis Armstrong's "Sugar Blues" or, later, a photograph of the man himself, inscribed, "To little Amy Jo, always in love with you--Pops." Wise beyond her years and hip to the unpredictable ways of Old Lady Life at all too early an age, A. J. Albany guides us through the dope and deviance of the late 1960s and early 1970s in Hollywood's shadowy underbelly and beyond. What emerges is a raw, gripping, and surprisingly sympathetic portrait of a young girl trying to survive among the outcasts, misfits, and artists who surrounded her.

Author : Paul Grondahl
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791472941
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mayor Erastus Corning written by Paul Grondahl and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2007-09-07 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grondahl’s classic biography of Albany’s “mayor for life,” now available in paperback.

Author : Paul Grondahl
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0578134543
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book These Exalted Acres: Unlocking the Secrets of Albany Rural Cemetery written by Paul Grondahl and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These Exalted Acres: Unlocking the Secrets of Albany Rural Cemetery