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O Albany!

by William Kennedy · 1983 · 432 pages

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Kennedy's O Albany!is in part the non-fictional stories he covered in his novels, Legsand Billy Phelan's Greatest Game. Kennedy retells the exploits of the bootlegger Jack 'Legs' Diamond, the bungled 1933 kidnapping of John O'Connell, Jr., heir to the Albany Democratic machine and explores the Albany of his past, including its demographics and vanished neighborhoods.

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Subject
historypolitics
Setting
1980s
Audience
adult
Length
long · 432 pages

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