Download or read book Richard Croker by Alfred Henry Lewis written by Alfred Henry Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Richard Croker written by Alfred Henry Lewis and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The President written by Alfred Henry Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alfred Henry Lewis (1857-1914) wrote under the pen name Quin; Dan Quin. He wrote: Wolfville (1897), The Old Plantation Home (1899), Sandburrs (1900), Richard Croker (1901), Wolfville Days (1902), Wolfville Nights (1902), How the Raven Died (1902), The Boss, And How He Came to Rule New York (1903), Peggy O'Neal (1903), The Black Lion Inn (1903), The President (1904), The Sunset Trail (1905), The Story of Paul Jones (1906), Confessions of a Detective (1906), The Throwback: A Romance of the Southwest (1906), When Men Grew Tall; or, The Story of Andrew Jackson (1907), Wolfville Folks (1908), An American Patrician; or, The Story of Aaron Burr (1908), The Apaches of New York (1912), Faro Nell and Her Friends: Wolfville Stories (1913) and Nation-Famous New York Murders (1914).
Download or read book Richard Croker Classic Reprint written by Alfred Henry Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Richard Croker To the Hon. Oliver H. P. Belmont. Dear Sir: As a mark of my respect and friendship, sentiments which find root in those several years we were together in relations of close social and business kind, I dedicate this volume to you. And thereby I more especially desire to testify my admiration of those qualities of honesty, courage, generous energy, and a fair and democratic Americanism which move you to strive in the general interest rather than the narrower service of yourself. Often I have considered that the most desperate test to which man's nature can be subjected is the inheritance of great wealth. To begin poor, and amass riches and retain them, and be safe from life's commencement to its close, are common and, indeed, natural conditions. But to be born with great wealth - to be wealthy without effort and when young, blights more frequently than it benefits, and becomes the very Reason of ruin oftener than anything else. One has but to call the roll of one's own acquaintance to be taught the perils that lie in ambush in a cradle full of gold. Beyond other effects such condition of earliest wealth is prone to sap one's energy and destroy one's hard capacity for toil. I do not now speak of him who picks up a system of gainful commerce when it falls from the dead hands of a forbear; who goes on with an existing enterprise which runs of its own momentum; and who offers the spectacle rather of being conducted by a business than of conducting one. 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.
Download or read book The Onlooker written by Alfred Henry Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alfred Henry Lewis (1857-1914) wrote under the pen name Quin; Dan Quin. He wrote: Wolfville (1897), The Old Plantation Home (1899), Sandburrs (1900), Richard Croker (1901), Wolfville Days (1902), Wolfville Nights (1902), How the Raven Died (1902), The Boss, And How He Came to Rule New York (1903), Peggy O'Neal (1903), The Black Lion Inn (1903), The President (1904), The Sunset Trail (1905), The Story of Paul Jones (1906), Confessions of a Detective (1906), The Throwback: A Romance of the Southwest (1906), When Men Grew Tall; or, The Story of Andrew Jackson (1907), Wolfville Folks (1908), An American Patrician; or, The Story of Aaron Burr (1908), The Apaches of New York (1912), Faro Nell and Her Friends: Wolfville Stories (1913) and Nation-Famous New York Murders (1914).
Download or read book The Black Lion Inn written by Alfred Henry Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale of romance, mystery, and adventure by Alfred Henry Lewis. Lewis began as a staff writer at the Chicago Times, and eventually became editor of the Chicago Times-Herald. By the late 19th century he was writing muckraker articles for Cosmopolitan. As an investigative journalist, Lewis wrote extensively about corruption in New York politics. In 1901 he published a biography of Richard Croker (1843-1922), a leading figure in the corrupt political machine known as Tammany Hall, which exercised a great deal of control over New York politics from the 1790s to the 1960s. For his next biography, When Men Grew Tall (1907), he turned a more forgiving eye to Andrew Jackson (1767-1845), the seventh President of the United States.
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Download or read book Richard Crocker written by Alfred Henry Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Elusive Unity written by James J. Connolly and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although many observers have assumed that pluralism prevailed in American political life from the start, inherited ideals of civic virtue and moral unity proved stubbornly persistent and influential. The tension between these conceptions of public life was especially evident in the young nation's burgeoning cities. Exploiting a wide range of sources, including novels, cartoons, memoirs, and journalistic accounts, James J. Connolly traces efforts to reconcile democracy and diversity in the industrializing cities of the United States from the antebellum period through the Progressive Era. The necessity of redesigning civic institutions and practices to suit city life triggered enduring disagreements centered on what came to be called machine politics. Featuring plebian leadership, a sharp masculinity, party discipline, and frank acknowledgment of social differences, this new political formula first arose in eastern cities during the mid-nineteenth century and became a subject of national discussion after the Civil War. During the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, business leaders, workers, and women proposed alternative understandings of how urban democracy might work. Some tried to create venues for deliberation that built common ground among citizens of all classes, faiths, ethnicities, and political persuasions. But accommodating such differences proved difficult, and a vision of politics as the businesslike management of a contentious modern society took precedence. As Connolly makes clear, machine politics offered at best a quasi-democratic way to organize urban public life. Where unity proved elusive, machine politics provided a viable, if imperfect, alternative.
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Download or read book The Impeachment of Governor Sulzer written by Matthew L. Lifflander and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-08-08 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2012 Isabelle Hermalyn Award of New York Urban History presented by the Bronx County Historical Society In The Impeachment of Governor Sulzer, Matthew L. Lifflander brings to life the dramatic story of a forgotten incident in New York State political history. When William Sulzer was elected to the office of governor of New York State in November 1912, it represented the culmination of a long and successful career in politics. The son of a German immigrant father and a Scotch-Irish American mother, Sulzer (1863–1941) rose through the powerful Tammany Hall machine to become the youngest man ever to serve as speaker of the New York State Assembly. In 1894, he was elected to Congress, where he served with distinction for eighteen years, rising to chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. When he became governor, it was with the support of the Tammany Hall machine, and everyone expected that he would duly perform his duties under the direction of Tammany boss Charles F. Murphy. Political reform and the corrupt influence of political machines were significant issues of the day, however, and shortly after Sulzer's election he began to project a populist "man of the people" image, announcing that he "belonged to no man." After he rejected some of Murphy's recommendations for key appointments and initiated investigations into corrupt state officials—many of them with Tammany connections—it was decided that he was a threat to the party bosses and had to be removed. Incredibly, less than a year after his election to the highest office in New York State, Sulzer had been impeached and removed. In addition to shedding light on the career of one of the most interesting and colorful figures in American political history, The Impeachment of Governor Sulzer explores legal, moral, and political issues that continue to this day, including pervasive questions about money and politics.
Download or read book Ashbel P Fitch written by David F. Remington and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of an "honest Tammany man" sounds like an oxymoron, but it became a reality in the curious career of Ashbel P. Fitch, who served New York City as a four-term congressman and a one-term city comptroller during the late nineteenth century. Although little known today, Fitch was well respected in his own day and played a pivotal role on both national and local stages. In the U.S. Congress, Fitch was a passionate advocate of New York City. His support of tariff reform and his efforts to have New York City chosen as the site for an 1892 World Exposition reflected his deep interest in issues of industrialization and urbanization. An ardent defender of immigrant rights, Fitch opposed the xenophobia of the times and championed cosmopolitan diversity. As New York’s comptroller, he oversaw the city’s finances during a time of terrible economic distress, withstanding threats from Tammany Hall on one side and from Mayor William L. Strong’s misguided reform administration on the other. In Ashbel P. Fitch, Remington succeeds in illuminating the independence and integrity of this unsung hero against the backdrop of the Gilded Age’s corrupt politics and fierce party loyalty.
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