Diamond Jim Brady
Prince of the Gilded Age
Chapter One
Make Them Like You
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IN THE MIND OF Daniel Brady in the summer of 1856, the
most important things in life were the customers who
bought beer at three cents a stein in his waterfront saloon on
the corner of Cedar and West streets on New York's Lower
West Side, the Roman Catholic Church, and the Democratic
Party. Consequently, when Dan's second son was born on the
twelfth of August, the beer flowed freely. Presently the parish
priest was informed that the boy he would be called on to baptize
had been named after the Democratic nominee for president
of the United States.
If the father of the newborn had his way, James Buchanan
Brady and his older brother (their father's namesake) would
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