Boss Tweed

The Story of a Grim Generation
Herausgeber: Lynch, Denis

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Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 478
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 225mm x 154mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 730g
• ISBN-13: 9780765809346
• ISBN-10: 0765809346
• Artikelnr.: 22080135

Autorenporträt

Denis Lynch

Inhaltsangabe

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