Machine made, Tammany Hall and the creation of modern American politics, Terry Golway
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Machine made, Tammany Hall and the creation of modern American politics, Terry Golway
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-346) and index
Illustrations
illustrationsplates
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Machine made
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
867001074
Responsibility statement
Terry Golway
Sub title
Tammany Hall and the creation of modern American politics
Summary
A journalist, historian, and expert on the Irish American experience tackles the common stereotypes and presents a revisionist version of the notoriously crooked Tammany Hall, describing the crucial social reforms and labor improvements they contributed"Historian Terry Golway has written a colorful history of Tammany Hall, which takes a more sympathetic view of the organization than many historians. He says the Tammany machine, while often corrupt, gave impoverished immigrants critically needed social services and a road to assimilation. According to Golway, Tammany was responsible for progressive state legislation that foreshadowed the New Deal. He writes that some of Tammany's harshest critics, including cartoonist Thomas Nast, openly exhibited a raw anti-Irish and anti-Catholic prejudice." --www.npr.org/2014/03/05/286218423/the-case-for-tammany-hall-being-on-the-right-side-of-history
Table Of Contents
"Tammany Hall belongs to us" -- Mass politics -- The Great Hunger -- Civil War -- A Tammany riot -- Tammany's Irish Reconstruction -- Challenging the Gilded Age -- To hell with reform -- An admirable organization? -- Murphy's law -- Frank and Al -- The battle of two governors -- Legacies
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Subject
- New York (N.Y.) -- Politics and government -- To 1898
- Municipal government -- New York (State) -- New York -- History
- New York (N.Y.) -- Politics and government -- 1898-1951
- Political corruption -- New York (State) -- New York -- History
- Progressivism (United States politics) + History
- Politics, Practical -- New York (State) -- New York -- History
- Irish Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Politics and government
- Immigrants + Political activity -- New York (State) -- New York -- History
- Tammany Hall -- History
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- Subject9
- New York (N.Y.) -- Politics and government -- To 1898
- Municipal government -- New York (State) -- New York -- History
- New York (N.Y.) -- Politics and government -- 1898-1951
- Political corruption -- New York (State) -- New York -- History
- Progressivism (United States politics) + History
- Politics, Practical -- New York (State) -- New York -- History
- Irish Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Politics and government
- Immigrants + Political activity -- New York (State) -- New York -- History
- Tammany Hall -- History
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