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The year was 1936, and Jimmy Hines was riding piggyback on political success. As Tammany Hall's leader of the slum-bound Eleventh Assembly District on the city's uptown west side, charged with guarding and delivering the district's Democratic vote, Hines had won the acclaim...
Ballots & Bail. Jimmy spent 25 years building his army among the hard-put widows and workingmen in his district. At Christmastime and Thanksgiving, he handed out turkeys to neighborhood families. He bailed out errant youngsters and toughs, whispered pleas to magistrates, found jobs for the hopeless. He swept into local...
Soft & Slumbrous. Whisking into Manhattan, Nehru was the honor guest at an honest-to-gaudy, cushy stag luncheon for 500 bigwigs and local politicos given by Mayor Robert Wagner (who valiantly intoned that "You do us signal honor . . . on your brief sojourn," solemnly proposed a toast to "the President of...
It was pleasant nonsense, and if Roosevelt had been present, he would have appreciated it. But not too many years later. Al was pouring verbal vitriol on an F.D.R. whom he had come to see as an enemy of U.S. institutions. Two recent books make this understandable, though neither one...
Williams College Professor James Burns has a more elusive fellow to trap in Roosevelt: the Lion and the Fox, and he knows it. Burns wears his objectivity on both sleeves. Though his F.D.R. is not noticeably different from the composite constructed in a score of other books, his book is...