@book{130,
  keywords = {machine politics, political corruption, Irish Americans, rags-to-riches, newspaper boys},
  author = {Henry Russell Miller},
  title = {The Man Higher Up: A Story of the Fight Which Is Life and the Force Which Is Love},
  abstract = {Tenement outcast Robert “Bob” McAdoo ascends from newsboy to political boss to mayor of Pittsburgh. The novel shed light on graft in city politics, detailing specific methods of corruption, but, according to the <em>Pittsburgh Press</em>, “[n]o exact parallels can be drawn between the characters and incidents in the books and those of real life.”},
  year = {1910},
  pages = {402 p.},
  publisher = {Bobbs-Merrill},
  address = {Indianapolis},
  language = {English},
}