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Empire Rising by Thomas Kelly
It is 1930 and ground has just been broken for the building dubbed the Eighth Wonder of the World. One of the thousands of men working high above the city is Michael Brody, an Irish immigrant torn between his desire to make a new life in America and his pledge to gather money and arms for the Irish republican cause. When he meets Grace Masterson, an alluring artist who is depicting the great skyscraper’s rise from her houseboat on the East River, Brody’s life turns exhilarating and dangerous, for Grace is also a paramour of Johnny Farrell, Mayor Jimmy Walker’s liaison with Tammany Hall and the New York Underworld. Published in 2005; 390 pages.
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