Boss Tweed: The Story of a Grim Generation

ISBN-13: 9781138519732 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 433 str.

Denis Lynch

Opis

No political scandal in American history has had a greater impact on America's political consciousness than the rise and fall of the "Tweed Ring" in New York City between 1866 and 1871

Spis treści

I: Tweed's Ancestry; II: Apology and Error; III: His Boyhood; IV: Gangsters Enter Politics; V: The Old Order Dies Hard; VI: The Tiger; VII: The Forty Thieves; VIII: Jay Gould Penniless; IX: How Wood Was Named Fernando; X: Local Autonomy; XI: The Amphibious Wood; XII: Tilden, Editor; XIII: Playing on Prejudices; XIV: Suffer Little Children; XV: Bigotry Versus Bigotry; XVI: The Dominant Idea in Politics; XVII: A Sulky, Unbroken Silence; XVIII: Tweed Defeated for Sheriff; XIX: Regaining His Fortune; XX: The Draft Riots Begin; XXI: I Am Your Friend; XXII: Tweed Made a Lawy; XXIII: How the Bridge Was Built; XXIV: Undoing a Veto; XXV: How The Ring Worked; XXVI: Tweed Among the Elite; XXVII: Hailed as a Reformer; Dana Consoles Tweed; XXIX: Hang Them; XXX: Tilden in the Saddl; XXXI: Convicted

O autorze

Denis Lynch