Tucker's People
by Ira Wolfert
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When Tucker's People was published in 1943 it was praised by the New York Times for its blowtorch intensity. The idea for Tucker's People stemmed from Ira Wolfert's coverage as a reporter of the trial of James Jimmy Hines, a Tammany Hall district leader who was prosecuted by Thomas E. Dewey for letting Dutch Schultz take over the numbers game in New York. It is a penetrating, sympathetic novel of frustration and insecurity, a story of little people, many of them decent people, battling show more against forces they are too feeble to resist and too simple to understand, according to the Saturday Review of Literature. show lessTags
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction
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- 813.52 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1900-1945
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- PS3545 .O3453 .T83 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 1900-1960
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