Machine made : Tammany Hall and the creation of modern American politics / Terry Golway
Object Details
- Author
- Golway, Terry 1955-
- Subject
- Tammany Hall (Political organization) History
- 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
- 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
- 2014
- To 1898
- 1898-1951
- Type
- Books
- History
- Physical description
- xxiv, 367 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place
- New York (State)
- New York
- New York (N.Y.)
- Smithsonian Libraries
- Topic
- Irish Americans--Politics and government
- Immigrants--Political activity--History
- Progressivism (United States politics)--History
- Municipal government--History
- Politics, Practical--History
- Political corruption--History
- Politics and government
- Record ID
- siris_sil_1033983
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
