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The Man Who Rode the Tiger is the dramatic story of the biggest investigation of political corruption in American municipal history.

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title:The Man Who Rode the Tiger : The Life and Times of Judge Samuel Seabury
author:Mitgang, Herbert.
publisher:Fordham University Press
isbn10 | asin:0823217221
print isbn13:9780823217229
ebook isbn13:9780585148304
language:English
subjectSeabury, Samuel,--1873-1958, Judges--New York (State)--New York--Biography, Political corruption--New York (State)--New York--History, New York (N.Y.)--Politics and government--1898-1951.
publication date:1996
lcc:KF373.S4M58 1996eb
ddc:347.747/014/092
subject:Seabury, Samuel,--1873-1958, Judges--New York (State)--New York--Biography, Political corruption--New York (State)--New York--History, New York (N.Y.)--Politics and government--1898-1951.
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The Man Who Rode the Tiger
Page ii
OTHER BOOKS BY HERBERT MITGANG
Biography
Abraham Lincoln: A Press
The Fiery Trial: A Life of Lincoln
Reportage
Dangerous Dossiers: Exposing the Secret War Against America's Greatest Authors
Freedom to See: Television and the First Amendment
Literature
Working for the Reader: A Chronicle of Culture, Literature, War, and Politics in Books
Words Still Count With Me: A Chronicle of Literary Conversations
History (Editor)
Civilians Under Arms: The Stars and Stripes, Civil War to Korea
The Letters of Carl Sandburg
Washington, D.C., in Lincoln's Time
America at Random: Topics of the Times
Spectator of America
Novels
The Return
Get These Men Out of the Hot Sun
The Montauk Fault
Kings in the Counting House
Plays
Mister Lincoln
Knight Errant
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The Man Who Rode the Tiger
The Life and Times of Judge Samuel Seabury
by
Herbert Mitgang
with a new introduction by the author
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Fordham University Press
New York
1996
Page iv
Copyright 1963 by Herbert Mitgang and The William Nelson Cromwell Foundation
Copyright 1996 by Herbert Mitgang
All rights reserved.
LC 96-24906
ISBN 0-8232-1721-3 (hardcover)
ISBN 0-8232-1722-1 (paperback)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in Publication Data
Mitgang, Herbert.
The Man who rode the tiger: the life and times of
Judge Samuel Seabury / by Herbert Mitgang
Originally published: Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1963.
With new intro.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8232-1721-3 (hardcover); ISBN 0-82320-1722-1
(paperback)
1. Seabury, Samuel, 1873-1958. JudgesNew York
(State)New YorkBiography. 3. Political corruptionNew
York (State)New YorkHistory. 4. New York (N.Y.) Politics
and government1898-1951. I. Title
KF373.S4M58 1996
347.747'014'092dc20
[B]
[347.470714092]
[B]Picture 3Picture 4Picture 5Picture 696-24906
Picture 7Picture 8Picture 9Picture 10CIP
Printed in the United States of America
Page v
To my brother, Leo Mitgang, 1916-1944
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CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
ix
Acknowledgments
xi
Introduction to the Fordham Edition
xv
Book I
The Making of a Reformer, 1873-1930
1
A Bishop Looks Over His Shoulder
5
2
The Eager Lawyer Discovers the People
23
3
Reformer Takes a Wife
46
4
The Youngest Judge in New York
67
5
Radical in Supreme Court Robes
90
6
Futile Dreamer, 1: The Almost Governor
112
7
Samuel Seabury, Esq., Again
124
8
The Affluent Barrister, But
143
Book II
The Great Inverstigators, 1930-1933
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