James K. McGuire

This is the story of a self-educated, charismatic, gifted leader who overcame personal tragedy in childhood and was elected the youngest mayor of a major city in America at the age of twenty-six. It is the story of a reformer who possessed a genius for politics. James K. McGuire (1868-1923) was elected mayor of Syracuse three times as a Democrat in a Republican bastion. Fahey narrates McGuire's remarkable rise to become a major figure in national politics as well as his questionable business dealings along the way.