{"product_id":"9781469775883","title":"The Schenectadians","description":"\u003cp\u003eA young, idealistic minister, and a stonecutter’s son, two men merged in destiny.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe former - driven by the abuses of a new industrial age at the turn of the century - from the pulpit to founding a crusading newspaper, election as the first Socialist mayor in New York State, then Democrat congressman, lieutenant governor and to the threshold of the presidency.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe latter from the mats of a local college and sawdust of the carnival to two world wrestling championships, a hometown hero and, for a third of a century, an area’s “Mr. Democrat.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA story of two men - a father and son-in-law - and a city, but more so a story of family, its joys in success, its heartbreaks in loss. A readable episode in a city’s history, but more so an inspiration to sons and daughters everywhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeorge R. Lunn urged more biographies and autobiographies, “. . . for in them we touch life in a peculiar and intimate way . . . We find history, we find philosophy, we find  religion . . . We are touching life in its most vital reality, and where can we find greater wisdom than by reading the actual conflicts of men and women in this workaday world?”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"iUniverse, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47178133340400,"sku":"9781469775883","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781469775883_p0.jpg?v=1763700320","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781469775883","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}