Plunkitt of Tammany Hall more books like this

by Terrence J McDonald (Introduction by), William L Riordan, Prof. Ernest R May (Designer)

Around the turn of the century George Washington Plunkett challenged the reformers of American city politics who blamed the ills of large cities on political organizations or machines such as New York City's Tammany Hall. Plunkett proposed that the "honest graft" of these machines was the oil that kept these machines and government in motion. His ...

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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall more books like this

by William L Riordon

EVERYBODY is talkin' these days about Tammany men growin' rich on graft, but nobody thinks of drawin' the distinction between honest graft and dishonest graft. There's all the difference in the world between the two. Yes, many of our men have grown rich in politics. I have myself.

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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall; a series of very plain talks on very practical politics more books like this

by William L. Riordon

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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall more books like this

by William L Riordan

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The Tiger: The Rise and Fall of Tammany Hall more books like this

by Oliver E Allen

The first complete history of Americas most bizarre and longest-running political act. Stories of chicanery and finagling and rigged elections abound in this look at a bygone era in American politics..

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Lullaby and Good Night more books like this

by Vincent Bugliosi, William Stadiem

The victim of a cruel frame-up that robbed her of her daughter, reputation, and career, a young actress seeks vindication and is led into an illicit world of mobsters, flappers and slumming socialites.

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Tammany Hall more books like this

by Morris Robert Werner

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King of the Bowery: Big Tim Sullivan, Tammany Hall, and New York City from the Gilded Age to the Progressive Era more books like this

by Richard F Welch

This book is the first complete study of Timothy D. 'Big Tim' Sullivan, Tammany chieftain and kingmaker, 'King of the Lower East Side', and, to some, 'King of the Underworld'. Sullivan was a pivotal figure in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century urban politics. A master of the personal, paternalistic, and corrupt no-holds-barred ...

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Tammany; The Evolution of a Political Machine, 1789-1865 more books like this

by Jerome Mushkat

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Richard Croker more books like this

by Alfred Henry Lewis

This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark ...

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The Last of the Big-Time Bosses: The Life and Times of Carmine de Sapio and the Rise and Fall of Tammany Hall more books like this

by Warren Moscow

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The History of Tammany Hall more books like this

by Gustavus Myers

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: HISTORY OF TAMMANY HALL CHAPTER I RESISTANCE TO ABISTOCRACY 1789-1798 THE Society of St. Tammany, or Columbian Order, was founded on May 12, 1789, a fortnight later ...

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Evil of the Age: The Charles St. Clair Chronicles more books like this

by Allan Gerald Levine

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Notorious Americans: Boss Tweed more books like this

by Blackbirch Press (Creator), Ruth Ashby

Fulfills the standards: "Individual Development and Identity," "Individuals, Groups, and Institutions," "Power, Authority, and Governance," "Production, Distribution, and Consumption," and "Civic Ideals and Practices" from the National Council for the Social Studies Curriculum Standards for Middle School and High School.

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Our Fight with Tammany more books like this

by Charles Henry Parkhurst

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The Reconstruction of the New York Democracy, 1861-1874 more books like this

by Jerome Mushkat

Offers an intensive study of the internal dynamics of the Democratic system of one state. The book's coverage ranges from 1861, when the crisis of disunion threatened the party's demise, through 1874, when it fully reconstructed itself and set a political pattern that lasted into the next century.

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The political machine: what it is, how it works. more books like this

by Gerald Kurland

Explains the function of the political machine in the United States focusing on the most famous one, New York City's Democratic organization, Tammany Hall.

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The trail of the tiger more books like this

by Allan Franklin, Thomas Nast

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Tigers of Tammany; nine men who ran New York more books like this

by Alfred Connable, Edward Silberfarb

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Master of Manhattan, the life of Richard Croker more books like this

by Lothrop Stoddard

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Al Smith's Tammany hall : champion political vampire more books like this

by William H. Allen

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America's Political Scandals in the Late 1800's: Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall more books like this

by Corona Brezina

William "Boss" Tweed was a powerful, corrupt Democrat during the second half of the 19th century. Through bribes and payoffs, he controlled the government and stole millions of dollars from New York City. Though there is little question that he and his Tammany Hall cohorts were far from honest, Tammany Hall controlled the city's government for ...

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The trail of the tiger : being an account of Tammany from 1789; the society of St. Tammany, or Columbian order; Tammany hall; the organization; and the sway of the bosses more books like this

by Allan Franklin, Thomas Nast

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