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Diamond Jim Brady
H. Paul Jeffers
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Description for Diamond Jim Brady
Hardcover. A spirited biography of the financier and bon vivant whose lavish lifestyle embodied the Gilded Age One of the most colorful figures of the most glamorous era in U.S. history, James Buchanan "Diamond Jim" Brady was the high lord of the New York glitterati during the Gilded Age. Brady's was a classic rags-to-riches story. Num Pages: 368 pages, facsimiles, portraits. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; BGH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 163 x 28. Weight in Grams: 712.
Praise for H. Paul Jeffers
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Praise for H. Paul Jeffers
An Honest President: The Life and Presidencies of GroverCleveland
"A well-written and timely book that reminds us of GroverCleveland?s courage, commitment, and honesty at a time when thesequalities seem so lacking in so much of American politics." ?JamesMacGregor Burns, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National BookAward
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Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780471391029
SKU
V9780471391029
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About H. Paul Jeffers
H. PAUL JEFFERS has written over twenty books of fiction and nonfiction, including Commissioner Roosevelt and Colonel Roosevelt, both published by Wiley.
Reviews for Diamond Jim Brady
The story of an industrial giant of the Gilded Age who looms tallover the colorless tycoons of today, H. Paul Jeffers's rollickingaccount of the life and times of "Diamond" Jim Brady is one of themost entertaining historical business narratives in recent memory.Born in 1856 into an Irish immigrant family who ran a saloon on theLower East side, Jim Brady had ... Read more