Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: A Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics (The Bedford Series in History and Culture) - Softcover

Riordon, William L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312084447 ISBN 13: 9780312084448

Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's, 1993

Synopsis

Accompanied by supporting, primary documents which put the book and subject matter into context, Plunkitt of Tammany Hall gives you insight into the world of controversy, conflict, corruption, and color that surrounded urban political machines at their height.

About this title

About the Author:

Terrence J. McDonald is professor of history at the University of Michigan. His book, The Parameters of Urban Fiscal Policy: Socioeconomic Change and Political Culture in San Francisco, 1860 to 1906, won the 1987 Allan M. Sharlin Memorial Award of the Social Science History Association and the 1988 J. S. Holliday Award from the California Historical Society. He is a member of the board of editors of the Journal of Urban History and Studies in American Political development, and he has published essays in those journals as well as in Social History, Historical Methods, the History Teacher, and Reviews in American History. His research on George Washington Plunkitt is part of an ongoing project on the image of the urban political machine and American liberalism entitled "Inventing Urban Politics: The City and the State in American Political Development, 1880-1980."

Review:

"This is a model of how teaching materials should be crafted. It is the clearest, most comprehensive, and most interesting discussion of Plunkitt that I have ever read."

About this edition

• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0312084447
• ISBN 13: 9780312084448
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160
• Editor: McDonald Terrence J.