Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : New York (N.Y.)
ISBN : CORNELL:31924065973343
The Tammany Times
Anonim
The Tammany Times
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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall
William L. Riordon
Author : William L. Riordon
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780486841939
Plunkitt of Tammany Hall by William L. Riordon Pdf
This volume presents the candid wit and wisdom of George Washington Plunkitt (1842-1924), a longtime New York City ward boss and Tammany Hall player. Plunkitt, a cynically honest practitioner of machine politics, reveals the secrets to the political success of Tammany Hall operatives, freely discussing his patronage-based appointments and exercise of power for personal gain.
The Tammany Times
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : New York (N.Y.)
ISBN : CORNELL:31924065973350
The Tammany Times by Anonim Pdf
Machine Made: Tammany Hall and the Creation of Modern American Politics
Terry Golway
Author : Terry Golway
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780871407924
Machine Made: Tammany Hall and the Creation of Modern American Politics by Terry Golway Pdf
“Golway’s revisionist take is a useful reminder of the unmatched ingenuity of American politics.”—Wall Street Journal History casts Tammany Hall as shorthand for the worst of urban politics: graft and patronage personified by notoriously crooked characters. In his groundbreaking work Machine Made, journalist and historian Terry Golway dismantles these stereotypes, focusing on the many benefits of machine politics for marginalized immigrants. As thousands sought refuge from Ireland’s potato famine, the very question of who would be included under the protection of American democracy was at stake. Tammany’s transactional politics were at the heart of crucial social reforms—such as child labor laws, workers’ compensation, and minimum wages— and Golway demonstrates that American political history cannot be understood without Tammany’s profound contribution. Culminating in FDR’s New Deal, Machine Made reveals how Tammany Hall “changed the role of government—for the better to millions of disenfranchised recent American arrivals” (New York Observer).
The History of Tammany Hall
Gustavus Myers
Author : Gustavus Myers
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547621676
The History of Tammany Hall by Gustavus Myers Pdf
"The History of Tammany Hall" by Gustavus Myers is an eye-opening exposé of one of America's most notorious political machines. Myers, a meticulous investigative writer, plunges deep into the shadowy realms of Tammany Hall, unveiling its complex web of corruption, power plays, and political influence within New York City. This historical account offers a sobering and often startling glimpse into the darker side of American democracy. A must-read for those intrigued by the interplay of politics and power, this book paints a vivid portrait of a pivotal period in American political history.
The Tammany Regiment
Fred C. Wexler
Author : Fred C. Wexler
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781491787717
The Tammany Regiment by Fred C. Wexler Pdf
As the Union mobilized to meet the military challenges of the Civil War, the people of New York volunteered in large numbers to meet the quotas set by President Lincoln. Tammany Hall used all of its political power to recruit men, mostly Irish immigrants, to form the regiment that would bear its name throughout most of the fiercest fighting of the war—from the bluffs outside Leesburg, the West Woods of Antietam, and the streets of Fredericksburg to Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg and the chaos that was Petersburg. Of the more than one thousand men who started with the regiment in 1861, less than one hundred would remain in 1864. The Tammany Regiment: A History of the Forty-Second New York Volunteer Infantry is more than the history of a group of men fighting to preserve a way of life. It is a story of a powerful political machine. It is a story about how the Fenian Movement to free Ireland from England affected the men in the trenches. It is a story of how families survived the challenges of war and how they dealt with the tumultuous news they received about their loved ones. Draw closer to many of the men in the Tammany Regiment, and share their thoughts and fears as they faced three years of unbelievable hardship. Did they do what was right? Could they have done more? Were they treated fairly? One thing is for sure—they will now be remembered!
Honest Graft
William L. Riordon
Author : William L. Riordon
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1881089584
Honest Graft by William L. Riordon Pdf
William L. Riordon's compiling and embroidering of Boss Plunkitt's boastful comments on machine politics constitutes a minor classic in American social history. in an introduction to this edition of the political boss's remarks, James S. Olson, chairman of the history department at Sam Houston State University, and James W. Mooney of American University engage in a provocative exchange over how the boss mentality as Plunkitt expressed it is to be judged. Thereby they complicate and enrich a reader's perception of the practical devices and ethical ambiguities of popular politics. "Tammany Hall was far more than a disinterested detached city government for several million poor, working-class New Yorkers. It was also a successful city government delivering municipal services, a social welfare agency assisting the immigrant poor and their children in adjusting to the new country, a political interest group giving working-class people at least a modest voice in an economic world increasingly dominated by rich corporations." --James S. Olson "In essence: the machine politicos, for all their genuine resonance with their constituencies, saw the average voter as a creature of appetite; the scientific progressives, for all their hauteur, expected something better of the public and were prepared to work for it." --James W. Mooney
The Making of Urban America
Raymond A. Mohl,Roger Biles
Author : Raymond A. Mohl,Roger Biles
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781493083626
The Making of Urban America by Raymond A. Mohl,Roger Biles Pdf
The revised and updated third edition of The Making of Urban America includes seven new articles and a richly detailed historiographical essay that discusses the vast urban history literature added to the canon since the publication of the second edition. The authors’ extensively revised introductions and the fifteen reprinted articles trace urban development from the preindustrial city to the twentieth-century city. With emphasis on the social, economic, political, commercial, and cultural aspects of urban history, these essays illustrate the growth and change that created modern-day urban life. Dynamic topics such as technology, immigration and ethnicity, suburbanization, sunbelt cities, urban political history, and planning and housing are examined. The Making of Urban America is the only reader available that covers all of U.S. urban history and that also includes the most recent interpretive scholarship on the subject.
Seth Low: the Reformer in an Urban and Industrial Age
Gerald Kurland
Author : Gerald Kurland
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Seth Low: the Reformer in an Urban and Industrial Age by Gerald Kurland Pdf
Fernando Wood
Jerome Mushkat
Author : Jerome Mushkat
Publisher : Kent State University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 087338413X
Fernando Wood by Jerome Mushkat Pdf
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.
Doomed by Cartoon
John Adler,Draper Hill
Author : John Adler,Draper Hill
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-08-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781600374432
Doomed by Cartoon by John Adler,Draper Hill Pdf
This volume is a collection of political cartoons by Thomas Nast that brought Boss Tweed to justice. The legendary Boss Tweed effectively controlled New York City from after the Civil War until his downfall in November 1871. A huge man, he and his Ring of Thieves appeared to be invincible as they stole an estimated $2 billion in today's dollars. In addition to the New York City and state governments, the Tweed Ring controlled the press except for Harper's Weekly. Short and slight Thomas Nast was the most dominant American political cartoonist of all time; using his pen as his sling in Harper's Weekly, he attacked Tweed almost single-handily, before The New-York Times joined the battle in 1870. The author focuses on the circumstances and events as Thomas Nast visualized them in his 160-plus cartoons, almost like a serialized but intermittent comic book covering 1866 through 1878.
Island of Vice
Richard Zacks
Author : Richard Zacks
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780767926195
Island of Vice by Richard Zacks Pdf
In the 1890s, young cocksure Theodore Roosevelt, years before the White House, was appointed police commissioner of corrupt, pleasure-loving New York, then teeming with 40,000 prostitutes, illegal casinos and all-night dance halls. The Harvard-educated Roosevelt, with a reformer’s zeal, tried to wipe out the city’s vice and corruption. He went head-to-head with Tammany Hall, took midnight rambles looking for derelict cops, banned barroom drinking on Sundays and tried to convince 2 million New Yorkers to enjoy wholesome family fun. The city rebelled big time; cartoonists lampooned him on the front page; his own political party abandoned him but Roosevelt never backed down. Island of Vice delivers a rollicking narrative history of Roosevelt’s embattled tenure, pitting the seedy against the saintly, and the city against its would-be savior.
Power and Society in Greater NY
David C. Hammack
Author : David C. Hammack
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1982-10-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781610442657
Power and Society in Greater NY by David C. Hammack Pdf
Who has ruled New York? Has power become more concentrated—or more widely and democratically dispersed—in American cities over the past one hundred years? How did New York come to have its modern physical and institutional shape? Focusing on the period when New York City was transformed from a nineteenth-century mercantile center to a modern metropolis, David C. Hammack offers an entirely new view of the history of power and public policy in the nation's largest urban community. Opening with a fresh and original interpretation of the metropolitan region's economic and social history between 1890 and 1910, Hammack goes on to show how various population groups used their economic, social, cultural, and political resources to shape the decisions that created the modern city. As New York grew in size and complexity, its economic and social interests were forced to compete and form alliances. No single group—not even the wealthy—was able to exercise continuing control of urban policy. Building on his account of this interplay among numerous elites, Hammack concludes with a new interpretation of the history of power in New York and other American cities between 1890 and 1950. This book makes a major contribution to the study of community power, of urban and regional history, and of public policy. And by taking the meaning and distribution of power as his theme, Hammack is able to reintegrate economic, social, and political history in a rich and comprehensive work. "Lucid, instructive, and discerning....The most commanding analysis of its subject that I know." —John M. Blum, professor of history, Yale University "A powerful and persuasive treatment of a marvelous subject." —Nelson W. Polsby, professor of political science, University of California, Berkeley
King of the Bowery
Richard F. Welch
Author : Richard F. Welch
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781438431833
King of the Bowery by Richard F. Welch Pdf
King of the Bowery is the first full-length biography of Timothy D. "Big Tim" Sullivan, the archetypal Tammany Hall leader who dominated New York City politics—and much of its social life—from 1890 to 1913. A poor Irish kid from the Five Points who rose through ambition, shrewdness, and charisma to become the most powerful single politician in New York, Sullivan was quick to perceive and embrace the shifting demographics of downtown New York, recruiting Jewish and Italian newcomers to his largely Irish machine to create one of the nation's first multiethnic political organizations. Though a master of the personal, paternalistic, and corrupt politics of the late nineteenth century, Sullivan paradoxically embraced a variety of progressive causes, especially labor and women's rights, anticipating many of the policies later pursued by his early acquaintances and sometimes antagonists Al Smith and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Drawing extensively on contemporary sources, King of the Bowery offers a rich, readable, and authoritative potrayal of Gotham on the cusp of the modern age, as refracted through the life of a man who exemplified much of it. "... a necessary book for anyone unsatisfied by the usual histories of Irish-American urban political machines. ... The Irish-American boss has rarely been awarded the careful appraisal of the kind that Welch ... gives Sullivan. ... But caveat lector: you don't have to be Irish American or a New Yorker or a Democrat to enjoy this book. All you have to be is interested in a well-told story that is also a first-rate work of history." — Peter Quinn, Commonweal
The Power of the Press
Thomas C. Leonard
Author : Thomas C. Leonard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1986-03-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195365085
The Power of the Press by Thomas C. Leonard Pdf
Many books have shown that journalists have political power, but none have offered a more wide-ranging account of how they got it. The Power of the Press is a pioneering look at the birth of political journalism. Before the American Revolution, Thomas Leonard notes, the press in the colonies was a timid enterprise, poorly protected by law and shy of government. Newspapers helped make the Revolution, but they were not fully aware of the way they could fit into a democracy. It was only in the nineteenth century that journalists learned to tell the stories and supply the pictures that made politics a national preoccupation. Leonard traces the rise of political reporting through some fascinating corridors of American history: the exposes of the Revolutionary era, the "unfeeling accuracy" of Congressional reporting, the role of the New York Times and Harper's Weekly in attacking New York City's infamous Tweed Ring, and the emergence of "muckraking" at the beginning of our century. The increasing power of the press in the political arena has been a double-edged sword, Leonard argues. He shows that while political reporting nurtured the broad interest in politics that made democracy possible, this journalism became a threat to political participation.