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The given day by dennis lehane6/21/2023 ![]() ![]() The year is 1918 and the BPD patrolmen have not been given a raise since 1905 they are working for below-poverty level wages. The novel starts at the end of the First World War, when union organizing activities are high across the country. ![]() ![]() The story has two main characters: Aiden "Danny" Coughlin, an ethnic Irish Boston Police patrolman, whose father is a prominent detective and captain in the department and Luther Laurence, a talented black amateur baseball player from Columbus, Ohio. The Given Day is a historical novel set in Boston, Massachusetts and Tulsa, Oklahoma. The Given Day is a novel by American writer Dennis Lehane published in September 2008 it is about the early twentieth-century period and set in Boston, Massachusetts, where its actions include the 1919 police strike, and Tulsa, Oklahoma, where the thriving Greenwood District was known as the "Black Wall Street". ![]()
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