O Albany! : improbable city of political wizards, fearless ethnics, spectacular aristocrats, splendid nobodies, and underrated scoundrels /
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New York : [Albany, N.Y.] :
Viking Press ; Washington Park Press,
1983.
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Table of Contents:
- Machine derived contents note: PART I : THE MAGICAL PLACES 1
- Albany as a State of Mind 3
- Legacy from a Lady 8
- The Romance of the Oriflamme 17
- North Albany: Crucible for a Childhood 22
- The Democrats Convene, or, One Man's Family 43
- PART II : THE NEIGHBORHOODS 55
- Downtown: Where Things Happened First 57
- Delaware Avenue and the Old South End:
- Shanties, Mansions, and Murder 73
- Arbor Hill: Yesterday's Arcadia 96
- Capitol Hill: A Visit with the Pruyn Family 106
- Pine Hills: Blue Book Territory 114
- The West End: Money on the Hoof, Money on Wheels 130
- The Bowery: Cabbages, Plucks, and Bloodsuckers 142
- The Gut: Our Boulevard of Bluest Dreams 155
- PART III : NIGHTTOWN 177
- Sports and Swells 179
- Prohibition: It Can't Happen Here 189
- The Death of Legs Diamond 199
- PART IV : SOME OF THE PEOPLE 213
- Jews 215
- Italians 233
- Germans 242
- Blacks 252
- PART V : LONG-RUN POLITICS: WIZARDRY UNBOUND 269
- They Bury the Boss: Dan Ex-Machina 271
- The South Mall: Everything Everybody Ever Wanted 304
- Erastus: The Million-Dollar Smile 325
- The Last Word 361
- PART VI : CLOSING TIME 373
- Debts and Butterings 375
- Albany as a Pair of Suspenders and a Movie 380
- Photo Credits 385
- Index 386
- Common Places, Uncommon Faces, an Album of
- Photographs follows page 175.
- Maps appear on pages 28, 59, 83,
- 98, 109, 116, 134, 144, 159, 307.