The year was 1910, A young and eager William O’Dwyer slowly walked out of the ship to take in his new surroundings. He could feel the crisp New York City air on his face like a cool fan on a hot day. All around him he could see smokestack chimneys, frantic businessmen, and performers who dreamed of stardom. People come to New York City for a fresh start. And that was exactly what he planned to do. With $23.34 in his pocket he set out to start his new life. Little did he know that in 36 short years, he would be the mayor of the greatest city in the world. Bill O’Dwyer had to work his way up the New York political ladder. The Irish immigrant found a job that could pay the bills of living in a tiny studio apartment Hell’s Kitchen. In a personal interview with relative Liam O’Neill, whose mother, Joan O’Dwyer, was the niece of William, O’Neill states that “Uncle Bill was a hardworking man. When he first got to the United States. He worked as a grocery errand boy”. His many other jobs included a brick carrier on construction sites, a stocker of ship furnaces, and then a police along the Brooklyn waterfront. He went to law school at night to earn his degree and later he made his own private practice. He was the District Attorney and prosecuted a mafia called Murder Incorporated. eventually, he became Kings County judge. In 1941 O’Dwyer …show more content…
You would look out over the city from someplace high above it and you would say to yourself, good Jesus, it's too much for me." said O’Dwyer. “On August 31st, 60-year-old William O'Dwyer said goodbye to 30,000 New Yorkers in City Hall Park”. (Maeder) Says the New York Daily News. He became the ambassador to Mexico and started a more relaxed life with his wife Slone Simpson. “O’Dwyer served his city well in a variety of positions.” Says the New York Times. He is buried in Arlington National
essence of New York and all its nuances in the form of terse observations. Whether
Cormac McCarthy is an American best known for his many different novels. He was born in Providence , Rhode Island as Charles McCarthy Jr, but later in his life he decided to change his name to Cormac, which was after an Irish King, which also meant “son of Charles”(“Cormac McCarthy”, Biography.com). His parents had 6 children and he was the youngest of them all. In 1937, McCarthy’s father, Charles Joseph McCarthy was offered a job for the Tennessee Valley Authority to be a lawyer, which was the reason the family moved to Knoxville, Tennessee (“Biography”, Cormacmccarthy.com). Cormac McCarthy went to Catholic High School in Knoxville because his family raised him as Roman Catholic. After he graduated from high school, he went to college at the University of Tennessee where he majored in liberal arts from 1951 to 1952. He then left the university and joined the U.S. Air Force where he served two of his four years in Alaska as a radio show host(“Biography”, Cormacmccarthy.com).
In 2013, just shy of my 17th birthday, I planned a day trip with two of my friends to see The Phantom of the Opera in New York. At this point in my life, I was entirely unaccustomed to large cities, such as New York City, and felt excited to experience the bustle I expected. While in the city, a woman informed me about methods to avoid the crime so intertwined with life in the city and introduced me to the concept that, just as New York City held many attractions for tourists, it also held some dangers as well. This idea takes pride of place in Edward Jones’ short story, “Young Lions” and its discussion of Caesar Matthews. As I learned a few years ago, the city truly contains amazement for those experiencing it, but, like all things in life,
Erik Larson’s book Devil in the White City is full of magic and madness that has shaped the society of the late 19th century that is specific to in Chicago. The issues that have been handled through this time frame that are addressed in this book is that how Chicago was known to be the black city at first, and how the city hoped that hosting the World’s fair would increase their reputation. Secondly, the magic of a man named Daniel Burnham that did put the plans of the world fair in Chicago into life and the obstacles that he had overcame. Next, once the world fair was complete, it has made Chicago “The White city,” by its dazzling designs and attractions that made it memorable. Then, the madness of H.H. Holmes and how his evil deeds has seemed to undermine the world fair and the things that are going on within it with his murders and treachery that does grip Chicago once his evil deeds have been found out. Finally, the events that happened in the world fair that relate to the issues that occur in the late ninetieth century within the United States. The city of Chicago was in a desolate condition before it hosted the World Fair.
Stephen A. Douglas was born in Brandon, Vermont on April 23, 1813. His father, a young physician of high standing, died suddenly when Stephen was two months old, and the widow with her two children retired to a farm near Brandon. This is where Stephen lived with her until he was fifteen years old. He attended school during the three winter months and working on the farm the remainder of the year. He wanted to earn his own living so he went to Middlebury and became an apprentice in the cabinetmaking business. This trade he followed for about eighteen months, when he was forced to stop his work because of impaired health, after this he attended the academy at Brandon for about a year.
Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century. By Kasson, John F. (New York: Hill & Wang, 2002. Acknowledgements, contents, tables and figures, introduction, notes, bibliography, index. $17.00 paperback)
Jeremiah Healy is the award-winning author of the John Francis Cuddy private-investigator series and the Mairead O'Clare legal-thriller series, both set primarily in Boston. Born in Teaneck, New Jersey on May 15, 1948, he graduated from Rutgers University in l970, got his JD at Harvard Law School in l973, and passed the Massachusetts Bar in 1974. He was an associate with a Boston law firm, from l974 to 1978, gaining a lot of courtroom experience. (Michaels, 2003)
Gerald Benjamin and Stephen P. Rappaport, Proceedings of the Academy of Political Science Vol. 31, No. 3, Governing New York State: The Rockefeller Years (May, 1974), pp. 200-213
Dumenil, Lynn, ed. "New York City." The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Social History. N.p.: Oxford UP, 2012. Oxford Reference. Web. 8 Apr. 2013.
In Harold C. Livesay’s Andrew Carnegie and the rise of Big Business, Andrew Carnegie’s struggles and desires throughout his life are formed into different challenges of being the influential leader of the United States of America. The book also covers the belief of the American Dream in that people can climb up the ladder of society by hard work and the dream of becoming an influential citizen, just as Carnegie did.
Although a fiction film, New Jack City details a chapter of New York’s development in which the city struggled to regain control over its dwindling economy and increase in extreme poverty and criminal behavior brought on by crack-cocaine. The poor economy encouraged a desperate scramble for money, and the rush for money, by any means, became the channel through which individuals sought to achieve the American Dream. Further, they planned to realize that dream in any way possible even if it meant making a profit from the very thing [Crack] that brought on their demise in the first
1. Kasson, F. John. “Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century” New York: Hill and Wang, 1978
The story begins with the narrator’s brother, Sonny, being arrested for using heroin. When the narrator discovers what has happened to his brother, he slowly starts to relive his past. Up to this point, the narrator had completely cut his brother and his childhood from his life. He disapproves of the past and does everything in his power to get rid of it. The narrator had become an algebra teacher and had a family who he moved to get away from the bad influences on the street. As a result, it is shown in the story that he has worked hard to maintain a good “clean” life for his family and himself. Readers can see that he has lived a good life, but at the toll of denying where he came from and even his own brother. For years, his constant aim for success had been successful. However, as the story progressed everything he knew started to fall apart.
the things to come and exited by the countless possibilities offered by one of the largest cities of the late 19th century – Chicago.
Krueckeberg, Donald A. (ed.) 1983. Introduction to Planning History in the United States. New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Urban Policy Research.