Jack Beatty, Author . Knopf $28.95 (483p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4028-5
Atlantic Monthly
editor Beatty (The Rascal King
) clearly invokes a comparison with the present in writing of how, he says, corporations, not the people, ruled America in the Gilded Age. He examines the role of the railroads as the engine of...
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Jack Beatty, Author Addison Wesley Publishing Company $25 (571p) ISBN 978-0-201-17599-8
Read an obituary: ``It is difficult to imagine a time when Boston will cease recalling stories about James Michael Curley.'' This book expands the perimeters of Curley's life, although non-Bostonians of a certain age will remember him as the...
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Jack Beatty, Author Addison Wesley Publishing Company $15 (0p) ISBN 978-0-201-62617-9
This delightful biography presents the notorious governor, congressman and four-term mayor of Boston as a devout Catholic, devoted husband and father of nine children, while describing how his constituents supported his politics of ethnic and...
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Jack Beatty. Walker, $30 (400p) ISBN 978-0-8027-7811-6
Many historians consider WWI to have been inevitable. Not so, maintains Beatty, a news analyst on NPR’s On Point (Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America, 1865–1900), in this delightfully contrarian account. If one of any number of events...
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