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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."
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Politics and government, Irish Americans, Political corruption, Immigrants, Practical Politics, Tammany Hall (Political organization), Progressivism (United States politics), Municipal government, Political activity, History, Tammany hall, Immigrants, united states, New york (n.y.), politics and government, New york (n.y.), history, Tammany HallPlaces
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Machine made: Tammany Hall and the creation of modern American politics
2014, Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
in English
- First edition.
0871403757 9780871403759
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-346) and index.
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