Frank and Al: FDR, Al Smith, and the Unlikely Alliance That Created the Modern Democratic Party

"This is history told the old-fashioned way. The book is only as long as it needs to be, the adroit narrative full of heroes (Smith, Roosevelt, big-city Democratic bosses) and villains (William Randolph Hearst, William Jennings Bryan, the Ku Klux Klan). The scenes are vivid and the anecdotes plentiful." —The Wall Street Journal

"Frank & Al is the latest of Mr. Golway's several captivating books on New York politics. He delivers once again, with a timely narrative on the centennial of Smith's...