Terry Golway is a journalist, historian and author of more than a dozen books. He has worked for The New York Observer, the New York Times, and Politico, among other publications. His books include "Machine Made," a widely praised revisionist history of Tammany Hall, and "Frank and Al," a dual biography of Franklin Roosevelt and Al Smith. His latest is his first novel: A Sherlock Holmes adventure set in New York in the 1880s, when Irish Americans were terrorizing London.
Terror from America
A Sherlock Holmes Adventure
The great English detective is dispatched to New York City to break up Irish-American organizations that are bombing London landmarks, including Parliament and Scotland Yard. Based on real events in the 1880s, the story is filled with intrigue, suspense, murder and surprises. At the center of the conspiracy is a woman poet with a dangerous secret. Publication date: April 28. You can preorder here.
Frank and Al
FDR, Al Smith, and the Unlikely Alliance That Created the Modern Democratic Party
Franklin Roosevelt and Al Smith were allies and rivals in the 1920s and '30s. One was to the manor born, the other, up from city streets. Together, they helped create the modern Democratic Party. Order here.
Machine Made
Tammany Hall and the Creation of Modern American Politics
In this bold revisionist history of the country's most-famous political machine, Terry Golway shows how immigrants used Tammany to achieve power and oppose nativists and the KKK. Order here.
