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Empire rising
- Title
- Empire rising / Thomas Kelly.
- Author
- Kelly, Thomas, 1961-
- Publication
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.
- Supplementary Content
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PS3561.E39717 E47 2005 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 390 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "It is 1930, and ground has just been broken for the building dubbed "the Eighth Wonder of the World." One of the thousands of men working high above the city is Michael Briody, an Irish immigrant torn between his desire to make a new life in America and his pledge to gather money and arms for the Irish republican cause. When he meets Grace Masterson, an alluring artist who is depicting the great skyscraper's rise from her houseboat on the East River, Briody's life turns exhilarating - and dangerous, for Grace is also a paramour of Johnny Farrell, Mayor Jimmy Walker's liaison with Tammany Hall and the New York underworld." "Their heartbreaking love story - which takes place both in the rough neighborhoods of the Bronx and amid the swanky nightlife of the '21' Club - is also a chronicle of the city's passage from a working-class enclave to a world-class metropolis, and a vivid reimagining of the conflict that pitted the Tammany Hall political machine against the boundlessly ambitious Franklin Delano Roosevelt."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Historical fiction.
- Political fiction.
- ISBN
- 0374147817 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2004008580
- 9780374147815
- OCLC
- ocm54974593
- SCSB-5160993
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries