The Big Fellow of Jersey City
This article is from the archive of The New York Sun before the launch of its new website in 2022. The Sun has neither altered nor updated such articles but will seek to correct any errors, mis-categorizations or other problems introduced during transfer.
After a lifetime of telling stories, of reimagining history both Irish and American in popular novels and nonfiction works (“The Officers’ Wives,” “Liberty!: The American Revolution”), Thomas Fleming has turned his scrutiny to the story of his own family, and the rise and fall of its political fortunes in Jersey City in its heyday.
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