Vanishing Point

The Disappearance of Judge Crater, and the New York He Left Behind

Szerző: Richard J. Tofel

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Kötés: Kemény kötésű

Kiadó: Ivan R Dee, Inc

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The sudden disappearance of Judge Joseph Crater nearly 75 years ago led to perhaps the most famous m...

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Szerző

Richard J. Tofel

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Kemény kötésű

Kiadva

2004

oldal

236

EAN

9781566636056

ISBN

1566636051

Enbook ID

05082800

Kiadó

Ivan R Dee, Inc

Súly

417

Méretek

151 x 216 x 30

Teljes leírás

The sudden disappearance of Judge Joseph Crater nearly 75 years ago led to perhaps the most famous missing persons case of the twentieth century. Crater, a justice of New York's state Supreme Court, vanished amid political scandal. Within days, questions arose about Judge Crater's finances and his liaisons with numerous women. A public frenzy about what happened to Crater provided impetus for scrutiny of New York's Tammany Hall political machine-and ultimately for the vanishing of Tammany Hall as well. The cast of characters in this book-the first-ever serious look at the Crater case-includes Franklin D. Roosevelt, the governor who named Crater to the bench; Senator Robert Wagner, Crater's mentor, but also the leader with the most to lose from having Crater found; Al Smith, Tammany's ebbing leader and failed presidential candidate; Jimmy Walker, the rogue Mayor of New York City and the darling of Tammany Hall; and Fiorello La Guardia, the crusading reformer who finally came to power on the back of the scandals. Richard J. Tofel's Vanishing Point is a revealing look at New York as the Jazz Age gave way to the Depression, and at one of the most intriguing stories in the annals of urban America.

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