Saint and sinner, champion of the people and shameless grafter, James Michael Curley, four times mayor of Boston, helped to transform our governance from the politics of deference to the politics of serving human needs. In this excerpt from Jack Beatty's forthcoming The Rascal King, the people of Boston, more than one million of them, turn out to say farewell to one of the most … [Read more...] about The Rascal King
The Rascal King
By Jack Beatty November 1992