Volume 15, No. 12
December 8th - December 19th 2011 FREE PUBLICATION
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201-349-4336
Pg. 2 On the Cover
Two New Books, a Bio on Former Jersey City Mayor Frank Hague and a Fantasy about Bayonne – Online and in Bookstores
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By Sally Deering ormer Jersey City Mayor Frank Hague reigned over Jersey City from 1917 to 1947 and is still an enigma that haunts the city like the ghost of Hamlet’s father. It’s easy to imagine Hague walking the streets of Jersey City today in his three-piece suit, starched shirt collar and bowler hat, squinting up at the skyscrapers on the waterfront and saying to anyone in earshot, “I did that!” No Hudson County politician before or since has had an impact on Jersey City like Hague and a new book about the legendary politician just hit bookstores (and Amazon.com and Barnes&Noble.com) by writer/historian Dr. Leonard Vernon of Laurel, New Jersey. In “The Life & Times of Jersey City Mayor Frank Hague: ‘I am the law’,” (History Press;192 pgs.,) Vernon has compiled a tight biography chronicling the rise and fall of this political legend – and it’s a somewhat different perspective of the man than the one now featured in the HBO hit series, “Boardwalk Empire.” It has been written that Hague had a widely-known reputation for corruption and “bossism” and was nicknamed “the Granddaddy of Jersey bosses.” At the time of his death in 1956, he had amassed a $10 million dollar fortune even though he only earned $8,500 a year as mayor and had no other “on the books” income.
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