Download or read book Machine Made Tammany Hall and the Creation of Modern American Politics written by Terry Golway and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-03-03 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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).
Download or read book King of the Bowery written by Richard F. Welch and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2011-10-28 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book Plunkitt of Tammany Hall written by William L. Riordon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1995-11-01 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plunkitt of Tammany Hall A Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics William L. Riordan “Nobody thinks of drawin’ the distinction between honest graft and dishonest graft.” This classic work offers the unblushing, unvarnished wit and wisdom of one of the most fascinating figures ever to play the American political game and win. George Washington Plunkitt rose from impoverished beginnings to become ward boss of the Fifteenth Assembly District in New York, a key player in the powerhouse political team of Tammany Hall, and, not incidentally, a millionaire. In a series of utterly frank talks given at his headquarters (Graziano’s bootblack stand outside the New York County Court House), he revealed to a sharp-eared and sympathetic reporter named William L. Riordan the secrets of political success as practiced and perfected by him and fellow Tammany Hall titans. The result is not only a volume that reveals more about our political system than does a shelfful of civics textbooks, but also an irresistible portrait of a man who would feel happily at home playing ball with today’s lobbyists and king makers, trading votes for political and financial favors. Doing for twentieth-century America what Machiavelli did for Renaissance Italy, and as entertaining as it is instructive, Plunkitt of Tammany Hall is essential reading for those who prefer twenty-twenty vision to rose-colored glasses in viewing how our government works and why. With an Introduction by Peter Quinn and a New Afterword
Download or read book Tammany Hall and the New Immigrants written by James B. Gilbert and published by Beaufort Books. This book was released on 1976 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of Tammany Hall written by Gustavus Myers and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Battle for the Soul of New York written by Warren Sloat and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the expolits of a forgotten American hero, the Rev. Charles H. Parkhurstand his crusade against the crooked New York City Police Department and the political organizaton behind it.
Download or read book Statement of the Majority of the Grand Council of the Tammany Society Or Columbian Order in Reply to a Protest of the Minority written by Tammany Society, or Columbian Order (New York, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Tammany Times written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Story of Tammany written by New York County Democratic Committee and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Tammany Hall Democracy of the City of New York written by William C. Gover and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings of the Tammany Society or Columbia Order on laying the corner stone of their New Hall in Fourteenth Street and celebrating the ninety first anniversary of American Independence July 4th 1867 Also a brief history of the origin of the Society Published by order of the Tammany Society written by Society of Tammany (NEW YORK) and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings of the Tammany Society Or Columbian Order written by Tammany Society, or Columbian Order (New York, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book To be Mayor of New York written by Chris McNickle and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Tammany Hall to the election of David Dinkins, To Be Mayor of New York offers insights into the effect of ethnic competition on the demise of urban political machines. Beginning with a colorful assessment of New York City's Tammany Hall as it existed in the late nineteenth century, McNickle traces the effect of the arrival of large numbers of Jewish and Italian immigrants -and later black and Puerto Rican migrants- on the Irish-dominated political machine. He focuses on the political passage of Jewish immigrants through the various small parties unique to New York -socialist, American Labor, and Liberal. Later he describes their attraction to various factions of the traditional Democratic and Republican parties. He spotlights the willingness of large numbers of Jewish voters to cast ballots for third-party candidates on the basis of their shared philosophical commitments and political priorities. McNickle then examines mayoral campaigns between 1945, the end of the LaGuardia era, and 1989, during which the Irish receded and Jews and later African-Americans emerged as the most important ethnic groups in local politics. To Be Mayor of New York offers the most complete study of the development of Jewish political participation in New York. Placing a rise of the New York City Reform Movement in historical perspective, the author explains the election of New York's first Jewish mayor, Abe Beame, and the first African-American mayor, David Dinkins, as part of the political evolution of both these groups.
Download or read book The New Tammany written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Society of Tammany or Columbian Order Celebration at Tammany Hall July 4th 1862 etc written by Society of Tammany (NEW YORK) and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book City of Ambition FDR LaGuardia and the Making of Modern New York written by Mason B. Williams and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Fascinating. . . . Williams tells the story of La Guardia and Roosevelt with insight and elegance.”—Edward Glaeser, New York Times Book Review
Download or read book The new Tammany written by and published by . This book was released on 189? with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
