Tucker's People

Tucker's People
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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Total Pages : 548
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ISBN-10 : 0252065980
ISBN-13 : 9780252065989
Rating : 4/5 (989 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Tucker's People by : Ira Wolfert

Download or read book Tucker's People written by Ira Wolfert and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Tucker's People was published in 1943 it was praised by the New York Times for its blowtorch intensity. The idea for Tucker's People stemmed from Ira Wolfert's coverage as a reporter of the trial of James Jimmy Hines, a Tammany Hall district leader who was prosecuted by Thomas E. Dewey for letting Dutch Schultz take over the numbers game in New York. It is a penetrating, sympathetic novel of frustration and insecurity, a story of little people, many of them decent people, battling against forces they are too feeble to resist and too simple to understand, according to the Saturday Review of Literature.


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