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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Remarkable Life of Albert Haskell, Jr.: The King of Crown City

Remarkable Life of Albert Haskell, Jr.: The King of Crown City

Sweeney, Martin A.

Paperback

Biographies General20th Century United States History

ISBN10: 0761873929
ISBN13: 9780761873921
Publisher: Hamilton Books
Published: Apr 13 2023
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Remarkable Life of Albert Haskell, Jr.: The King of Crown City isthe first comprehensive portrait of the Cortland, New York schoolboy who forged a path of his own that garnered him a reputation in New York State and the Northeast of the nation as an accomplished lawyer, politician, banker, civic organizer, supporter of higher education, and promoter of industrial expansion.As a district attorney, Haskell crossed paths with the prohibition government agents, murderers, white slavers, members of the Black Hand gang, and the Ku Klux Klan. He successfully prosecuted those who were part of a tubercular cattle scandal. As a state assemblyman, he was an advocate for the state's dairy farmers during the violent milk strikes in the 1930s. Haskell co-founded a chapter of Rotary International in 1919 and played a pivotal role in the 1950s in making the place of his birth the typewriter capital of the world. Based on a trove of scrapbooks assembled by Haskell through his lifetime and kept by his grandchildren, this biography reveals exactly why Haskell's life of integrity and public service merits the title of King of 'Crown City.'

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