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Fernando Wood

Jerome Mushkat
Fernando Wood Book PDF

Author : Jerome Mushkat
Publisher : Kent State University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 087338413X

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Fernando Wood was one of the most controversial figures of nineteenth-century America. His fellow New Yorkers either respected or despised him, depending whether they considered his policies beneficial or harmful to their interests. The character revealed herein possessed some admirable qualities; high intelligence, sharp analytic skills, great capacity for hard work, and a clear talent to set his executive agenda. But equally evident are Wood's less admirable qualities; ruthless business practices, shoddy personal ethics, corrupt politics, dictatorial tendencies. What emerges is the story of a very complex person: a successful businessman, consummate politician, resourceful three-time may of New York City, and nine-term congressman, beneath which lurked mean and self-destructive tendencies. Take as a whole, Wood's colorful career was a unique microcosm of American history both during and after his lifetime. His business achievements mirrored popular beliefs in upward mobility. And Wood's mayoralty held a promise of revitalizing municipal government, giving it a social conscience, and setting new standards for the future. Despite his shortcomings, Fernando Wood played a major but unappreciated role in the urban and political history of time.

Biography of Hon. Fernando Wood

Xavier Donald MacLeod
Biography of Hon Fernando Wood Book PDF

Author : Xavier Donald MacLeod
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Legislators
ISBN : HARVARD:32044004530622

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Law & Disorder

Bruce Chadwick
Law Disorder Book PDF

Author : Bruce Chadwick
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781250082596

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Nineteenth-century New York City was one of the most magnificent cities in the world, but also one of the most deadly. Without any real law enforcement for almost 200 years, the city was a lawless place where the crime rate was triple what it is today and the murder rate was five or six times as high. The staggering amount of crime threatened to topple a city that was experiencing meteoric growth and striving to become one of the most spectacular in America. For the first time, award-winning historian Bruce Chadwick examines how rampant violence led to the founding of the first professional police force in New York City. Chadwick brings readers into the bloody and violent city, where race relations and an influx of immigrants boiled over into riots, street gangs roved through town with abandon, and thousands of bars, prostitutes, and gambling emporiums clogged the streets. The drive to establish law and order and protect the city involved some of New York’s biggest personalities, including mayor Fernando Wood, police chief Fred Tallmadge, and journalist Walt Whitman. Law and Disorder is a must read for fans of New York history and those interested in how the first police force, untrained and untested, battled to maintain law and order.

The Restless City

Joanne Reitano
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Author : Joanne Reitano
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136964428

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The Restless City: A Short History of New York from Colonial Times to the Present is a short, lively history of the world’s most exciting and diverse metropolis. It shows how New York’s perpetual struggles for power, wealth, and status exemplify the vigor, creativity, resilience, and influence of the nation’s premier urban center. The updated second edition includes nineteen images and brings the story right up through the mayoral election of 2009. In these pages are the stories of a broad cross-section of people and events that shaped the city, including mayors and moguls, women and workers, and policemen and poets. Joanne Reitano shows how New York has invigorated the American dream by confronting the fundamental economic, political, and social challenges that face every city. Energized by change, enriched by immigrants, and enlivened by provocative leaders, New York City’s restlessness has always been its greatest asset.

A Biography of Fernando Wood

Abijah Ingraham
A Biography of Fernando Wood Book PDF

Author : Abijah Ingraham
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-25
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0666355002

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Excerpt from A Biography of Fernando Wood: A History of the Forgeries, Perjuries, and Other Crimes of Our Model Mayor When a candidate in 1854, he sought interviews with many whom he had a right to suppose would Oppose him, as they knew much of his real character, and of the alleged frauds charged upon him.. He endeavored to persuade them that he had been unjustly accused; but when finding that he could make no impression on their minds in this direction, he then appealed to them for forgiveness, and solicited them to give him an opportunity to redeem his character through his election to the mayoralty. He stated, in some instances, that he sought this high position chiefly to remove, by his good conduct in official position, the deep prejudices that existed against him. This appeal induced some to support him, who otherwise would not have done so. When arrayed against a single Opponent, Wood was easily beaten, as was the case in 1850, when he was beaten by several thousand votes. But he saw in the mayoralty contest, in 1854, that there would be several candidates, and that if he could get the endorsement of the Democracy, or of the Seymour party, he could slip in by a plurality vote. He was right in his calcula tion. But what effort did he make to redeem his character after he was elected? His policy at first was to be bold, and seemingly honest, Napoleonic In the style of his public documents. But no sooner had he begun to get the good opinion of some who had Opposed his election, than he found it convenient, and to his interest, to take a stroll in the neighborhood of the sunken ship Joseph Walker, lying at the slip, foot of Dover Street, in which entombed craft he imagined he saw a second John W. Cater. The first draft he made on the city treasury, on account of this sunken treasure, was a contract with his friend Jones to raise her, for the snug little sum of He succeeded in getting a greater part of this amount out of the treasury, when the press got hold Of the matter, and further drafts on this account were dishonored. But his friend Jones got some seven or eight thousand dollars on this fraudulent contract. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Fernando Wood

3d Session United States 46th Congress
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Author : 3d Session United States 46th Congress
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1356938809

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Park and the People

Roy Rosenzweig,Elizabeth Blackmar
The Park and the People Book PDF

Author : Roy Rosenzweig,Elizabeth Blackmar
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0801497515

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Delineate the politicians, business people, artists, immigrant laborers, and city dwellers who are the key players in the tale. In tracing the park's history, the writers also give us the history of New York. They explain how squabbles over politics, taxes, and real estate development shaped the park and describe the acrimonious debates over what a public park should look like, what facilities it should offer, and how it should accommodate the often incompatible.

A History of the Private, Political, and Official Villanies of Fernando Wood

Anonymous
A History of the Private Political and Official Villanies of Fernando Wood Book PDF

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0649751043

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African Or American?

Leslie M. Alexander
African Or American Book PDF

Author : Leslie M. Alexander
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252078538

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The struggle for black identity in antebellum New York

A Biography of Fernando Wood

Abijah Ingraham
A Biography of Fernando Wood Book PDF

Author : Abijah Ingraham
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1354250095

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Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Fernando Wood, (a Representative From New York) (Classic Reprint)

United States; Th Congress
Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Fernando Wood a Representative From New York Classic Reprint Book PDF

Author : United States; Th Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1330849426

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Excerpt from Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Fernando Wood, (a Representative From New York) Resolved by the Senate and Home of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be printed twelve thousand copies respectively of the eulogies delivered in Congress upon the late Fernando Wood, a Representative from the State of New York; Matt. H. Carpenter, a Senator from the State of Wisconsin, and Ambrose E. Burnside, a Senator from the State of Rhode Island, of each of which four thousand shall be for the Senate, and eight thousand for the use of the House of Representatives; and the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to have printed portrait of the three above-named Messrs. Wood, Carpenter, and Burnside to accompany their respective eulogies; and for the purpose of defraying the expense.of engraving and printing the said portraits the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, February 15, 1882. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.