Roscoe

DJ has very slight shelfwear at top edge. A bright, tight, attractive copy. "You've never met a politician like Roscoe Conway (or have you): a suave Falstaffian in a double-breasted white Palm Beach suit, unscrupulous, brilliant, exploding with courtly romance. It's V-J Day, the war's over, and Roscoe, after twenty-six years as chief brain truster of Albany's notorious political machine, decides to quit politics forever. But there's no exit, only new political wars and scandalous threats to his beloved and her family. Roscoe, the chivalrous warrior, finds fraudulence an extremely effective combat weapon for coping with the erupting disasters. "Righteousness doesn't stand a chance against the imagination," he concludes. Every step forward leads Roscoe back to the past-to the early loss of his true love, his own peculiar heroics in the First World War, the takeover of city hall, the machine's fight with FDR and Al Smith to elect a governor, and the methodical assassination of gangster Jack "Legs" Diamond."; 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall

Product Info

ISBN: 0670030295

ISBN-13: 9780670030293

Publisher: Viking Press

Year: 2002

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

Seller Info

OrielisBooks

Address: 1 Martha Lane Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Website: https://www.orielisbooks.com

Country: United States