O Albany! : improbable city of political wizards, fearless ethnics, spectacular aristocrats, splendid nobodies, and underrated scoundrels

Author(s)

• Kennedy, William

Bibliographic Information

O Albany! : improbable city of political wizards, fearless ethnics, spectacular aristocrats, splendid nobodies, and underrated scoundrels

William Kennedy

Penguin Books, 1985, c1983

• : pbk

Note

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

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Details

• NCID: BA40099754
• ISBN:
  • 0140074163
• LCCN: 85006530
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 402 p., [18] p. of plates
• Size: 20 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : F129.A357
  • DC19 : 974.7/43
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Albany (N.Y.) -- History
  • LCSH : Albany (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs
  • LCSH : Albany (N.Y.) -- Politics and government