The Man Higher Up
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Author | Henry Russell Miller |
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Language | English |
Genre | Novel |
Publisher | Bobbs-Merrill |
Publication date | 1910 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (hardback) |
Pages | 402 |
OCLC | 6563281 |
Followed by | His Rise To Power |
The Man Higher Up: A Story of the Fight Which Is Life and the Force Which Is Love is a novel by the American writer Henry Russell Miller set in 19th century Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The novel tells the Horatio Alger story of Bob, an Irish-Catholic tenement waif who becomes a mill hand, a ward heeler, then mayor of Pittsburgh, and finally governor of Pennsylvania.
References
[edit]- Hanna, Archibald (1985). A Mirror for the Nation: An Annotated Bibliography of American Social Fiction, 1901-1950. New York: Garland Publishing Company. ISBN 0-8240-8727-5.
- Miller, Henry Russell (1910). The Man Higher Up. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill.