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The nationally acclaimed, award-winning biography of "the Kingfish of Massachusetts" and an epic of urban politics and Irish America. Twice-jailed scoundrel and the people's champion, builder of hospitals and schools and shameless grafter, compelling orator and master of political farce,... read more

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First Sentence

Michael Curley came to America at age fourteen; he married at twenty-one; he died at thirty-four.

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  1. Jack Beatty (Author)
 

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