Volume 40, Number 3 · January 28, 1993
His Honor
By Murray Kempton
The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley, 1874–1958
by Jack Beatty
Addison-Wesley, 570 pp., $25.00
The late Rev. Francis X. Curley told Jack Beatty that from all his childhood he could remember only one time when his father took a hand to him. It was an evening late in the 1920s when little Frank met the home-arriving James M. Curley with a heartfelt 'Hi, Dad!'
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