Kieran Healy

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the mob moved without any design save the unpredictable direction of rage. They attacked symbols of wealth: Brooks Brothers, the clothing store, was plundered. They attacked symbols of authority: the mayor’s residence was pelted with stones. And they attacked voices of emancipation: Horace Greeley was a target. The editor of the New York Times, Henry Richmond, manned a Gatling gun outside his building near City Hall.
The Immortal Irishman: Thomas Meager and the Invention of Irish America
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