Accompanied by supporting, primary documents which put the book and subject matter into context, Plunkitt of Tammany Hall gives you insight into the world of controversy, conflict, corruption, and color that surrounded urban political machines at their height.

Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: A Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)

Biographies & Memoirs

Riordon, William L.

Leaders & Notable People

Bedford/St.Martin's

Since its publication in 1905, Plunkitt of Tammany Hall has given generations of students a passport into the world of controversy, conflict, corruption, and color that surrounded urban political machines at their zenith. The full text of William Riordon's book is supported here by nine primary documents that place both the book and its subject into context.

Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: A Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics (Bedford Books in American History)

Bedford/St.Martins

This unique anthology chronicles the Plains Indians' struggle to maintain their traditional way of life in the changing world of the nineteenth century. Its rich variety of 34 primary sources - including narratives, myths, speeches, and transcribed oral histories - gives students the rare opportunity to view the transformation of the West from Native American perspective. Calloway's comprehensive introduction offers crucial information on western expansion, territorial struggles among Indian tribes, the slaughter of the buffalo, and forced assimilation through the reservation system. More than 30 pieces of Plains Indian art are included, along with maps, headnotes, questions for consideration, a bibliography, a chronology, and an index.

Our Hearts Fell to the Ground and Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: Confronting Southern Poverty in the Great Depression

Calloway, Colin G.

Coclanis, Peter A.

Carlton, David L.

McDonald, Terrence J.

History

American Promise Compact 2e Volume 2 and Reading the American Past Volume 2 and: Pearl Harbor and the Coming of the Pacfic War and Plunkitt of Tammany Hall

Johnson, Michael P.

Roark, James L.

Stage, Sarah

Cohen, Patricia Cline

Lawson, Alan

Hartmann, Susan M.

Iriye, Akira

Americas

Confronting Southern Poverty and Plunkett of Tammany Hall: The Report on Economic Conditions of the South with Related Documents

Business & Money

Economics

Our Hearts Fell to the Ground & Thomas Edison and Modern America & McGuffey Readers & Southern Horrors and Other Writings & Plunkitt of Tammany Hall & ... at Hull-House & Looking Backward, 2000-1887

BELLAMY, EDWARD

Flehinger, Brett

ADDAMS, JANE

Gitelman, Lisa

Royster, Jacqueline Jones

Collins, Theresa M.

McGuffey Readers & Plunkitt of Tammany Hall & Looking Backward, 2000-1887 & Southern Horrors and Other Writings & Thomas Edison and Modern America & ... and the Power of Progressivism & Jungle

Gorn, Elliott J.

SINCLAIR, UPTON

Who Built America 3e V2 & Rise of Conservatism in America & Movements of the New Left &Era of Franklin D. Roosevelt & Plunkitt of Tammany Hall

American Social History Project

Story, Ronald

Laurie, Bruce

Gosse, Van

Polenberg, Richard D.

Triangle Fire & Plunkitt of Tammany Hall & How the Other Half Lives

Riis, Jacob A.

Leviatin, David

Argersinger, Jo Ann

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

Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: A Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics (Signet Classics)

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Signet

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