TY - SER
KW - machine politics
KW - political corruption
KW - Irish Americans
KW - rags-to-riches
KW - newspaper boys
AU - Henry Russell Miller
AB - 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.”
C1 - 1880s-1910s
C3 - Allegheny County; Pittsburgh
C4 - Literary
CY - Indianapolis
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N2 - 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.”
PB - Bobbs-Merrill
PP - Indianapolis
PY - 1910
RN - Henry Russell Miller (1880-1955), born in Sydney, Ohio and raised in Allegheny City, Allegheny County, was an attorney and novelist.
EP - 402 p.
TI - The Man Higher Up: A Story of the Fight Which Is Life and the Force Which Is Love
ER -