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  • Plunkitt of Tammany Hall

    The Annotated Edition

    de Kevin W. Hula, Douglas B. Harris, William L. Riordon ...
    Plunkitt of Tammany Hall**, first published in 1905, provides an extraordinary account of the political corruption and profiteering of George Washington Plunkitt, a long-time district leader in the New York Democratic Party's political machine in Manhattan.** Reporter William L. Riordon immortalized Plunkitt's banter and bluster by reorganizing the raconteur's impromptu speeches, conversations, ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Plunkitt of Tammany Hall

    de William L. Riordon ...
    As a reporter for the "New York Evening Post" during the time of New York's Tammany Hall Machine, William Riordan compiled and published this work in 1905 from a series of articles he wrote on George Washington Plunkitt, the millionaire ward boss of New York's 15th District. Plunkitt is best remembered as a streetwise politician who practiced what he called "honest graft," or what is otherwise ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • Plunkitt of Tammany Hall

    A Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics

    de Philip Freeman, William L. Riordon ...
    Plunkitt of Tammany HallA Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical PoliticsWilliam 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 ... Leer más

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  • Plunkitt of Tammany Hall

    A Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics

    de William L. Riordon ...
    Series series Dover Thrift Editions: Political Science
    This classic work presents the candid wit and wisdom of George Washington Plunkitt (1842–1924), a longtime state senator from New York who represented the Fifteenth Assembly District and was especially powerful in New York City. Plunkitt was part of the city's Tammany Hall organization and a cynical practitioner of what today is generally known as "machine politics," a patronage-based system in ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

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  • The Chaneysville Incident

    A Novel

    de David Bradley ...
    Winner of the PEN/Faulkner: "Rivals Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon as the best novel about the black experience in America since Ellison's Invisible Man" ( The Christian Science Monitor).Brilliant but troubled historian John Washington has left Philadelphia, where he is employed by a major university, to return to his hometown just north of the Mason–Dixon Line. He is there to care for Old Jack, ... Leer más

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  • Black No More

    de George S. Schuyler ...
    For fans of the Oscar-winning film American Fiction: the landmark comic satire that asks, “What would happen if all black people in America turned white?”—featuring an introduction by Danzy Senna, the bestselling author of Caucasia and Colored TelevisionA Penguin ClassicIt’s New Year’s Day 1933 in New York City, and Max Disher, a young black man, has just found out that a certain Dr. Junius ... Leer más

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  • Grover Cleveland

    The American Presidents Series: The 22nd and 24th President, 1885-1889 and 1893-1897

    de Henry F. Graff ...
    Series series The American Presidents
    A fresh look at the 22nd and 24th president of the United States of America.Though often overlooked, Grover Cleveland was a significant figure in American presidential history. Having run for President three times and gaining the popular vote majority each time—despite losing the electoral college in 1892—Cleveland was unique in the line of nineteenth-century Chief Executives.In this book, ... Leer más

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  • Hard Times

    An Illustrated Oral History of the Great Depression

    de Studs Terkel ...
    First published in 1970, Studs Terkel's bestselling Hard Times has been called “a huge anthem in praise of the American spirit” (Saturday Review) and “an invaluable record” (The New York Times). With his trademark grace and compassion, Terkel evokes a mosaic of memories from those who were richest to those who were destitute: politicians, businessmen, artists and writers, racketeers, speakeasy ... Leer más

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  • Soulcatcher

    And Other Stories

    de Charles Johnson ...
    Short stories inspired by the history of slavery in America, by the National Book Award–winning author of Middle Passage.Nothing has had as profound an effect on American life as slavery. For blacks and whites alike, the experience has left us with a conflicted and contradictory history. Now, famed novelist Charles Johnson, whose Middle Passage won the National Book Award, presents a dozen tales ... Leer más

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  • The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War

    de Leonard L. Richards ...
    Series series Vintage Civil War Library
    Award-winning historian Leonard L. Richards gives us an authoritative and revealing portrait of an overlooked harbinger of the terrible battle that was to come.When gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill in 1848, Americans of all stripes saw the potential for both wealth and power. Among the more calculating were Southern slave owners. By making California a slave state, they could increase the ... Leer más

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  • The Pocket Guide to Brilliance

    de Bart King ...
    The author of Dad Humor offers an entertaining look at American history's geniuses, leaders, and dunderheads in a clever quest to define brilliance.With dry humor and a wealth of fascinating trivia, Bart King explores what it means for a person to be brilliant. What he discovers is that brilliant people are those who walk farther, think deeper, and talk louder than the rest of us. They do what it ... Leer más

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  • Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: a series of very plain talks on very practical politics, delivered by ex-Senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany phi

    de George Washington Plunkitt ...
    THIS volume discloses the mental operations of perhaps the most thoroughly practical politician of the day— George Washington Plunkitt, Tammany leader of the Fifteenth Assembly District, Sachem of the Tammany Society and Chairman of the Elections Committee of Tammany Hall, who has held the offices of State Senator, Assemblyman', Police Magistrate, County Supervisor and Alderman, and who boasts of ... Leer más

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