Background
Beatty, Jack J. was born on May 15, 1945 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Son of John Jay and Frances C. (Parks) Beatty.
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Twice-jailed scoundrel and the people's champion, builder of hospitals and schools and shameless grafter, compelling orator and master of political farce, James Michael Curley was the stuff of legend long before his life became fiction in Edwin O'Connor's classic novel The Last Hurrah. As mayor of Boston, as congressman, as governor of Massachusetts, Curley rose from the Irish slums in a career extending from the Progressive Era of Teddy Roosevelt to the ascendancy of JFK. Beatty's spellbinding story of this remarkable man—and of his city, his people, and his times—is biography at its best.
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This epic of urban politics and Irish America recounts the life of James Michael Curley--twice-jailed scoundrel and saint, champion of the people and shameless grafter, er of Mussolini, orato and wit, and often called the most colorful politician in American history. And a great Dickensian story it is, spilling over with plots and pathos, political farce and shrewd analysis from the Senior Editor at The Atlantic. Photographs.
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Beatty, Jack J. was born on May 15, 1945 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Son of John Jay and Frances C. (Parks) Beatty.
Doctor of Humane Letters(honorary), University Massachusetts, Boston, 1994.
Literature editor, The New Republic, Washington, 1978-1983; senior editor, The Atlantic Monthly, Boston, since 1983.
( Twice-jailed scoundrel and the people's champion, build...)
(This epic of urban politics and Irish America recounts th...)
Married Lois Masor, September 3, 1976. 1son, Aaron.
