In New York State and Rockland County

by Isabelle K. Savell

Senator Charles Lexow headed a successful investigation of corruption in

New York City; fought successfully for the creation of Greater New York;

and launched the bi-state effort to save the Palisades from destruction.

Based on the Lexow family files, this biography of one of ?life's passionate

pilgrims? includes the family's European and early Rockland County

antecedents.

ISBN: 0911183-21-3; cloth

1984, 241 pp., illus., index

Politics in the Gilded Age in New York State and Rockland County: A Biography of Senator Charles Lexow