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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 against forces they are too feeble to ...

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Tucker's People 2018, Black Curtain Press

ISBN-13: 9781515426158

Hardcover

Tucker's People 2013, Black Curtain Press

ISBN-13: 9781627550390

Trade paperback

Tucker's People 1997, University of Illinois Press, Urbana-Champaign, IL

ISBN-13: 9780252065989

Trade paperback