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The Wild Sixties
Nevins, Allan | January 2, 1929 issue

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The article focuses on the book "Jubilee Jim: The Life of Colonel James Fisk, Jr.," by Robert H. Fuller. The wild era of political and financial corruption just after the Civil War has become a favorite field for biographers and historians who love the picturesque. No other freebooter of the time had quite the impudent audacity which marked if Jim Fisk. Among all the extraordinary personages of the day he stood preeminent as an example of what E.L. Godkin noted as the rising taste for notoriety.

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JUBILEE Jim: The Life of Colonel James Fisk, Jr. (Book); FULLER, Robert H.; BIOGRAPHERS; FISK, James; BIOGRAPHY; CIVIL war
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