Plunkitt of Tammany Hall

Riordon, William L.

ISBN 10: 0312084447 / ISBN 13: 9780312084448

Published by Bedford Books, 1993

Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0312084447I2N00

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 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."

Bibliographic Details

Title: Plunkitt of Tammany Hall
Publisher: Bedford Books
Publication Date: 1993
Binding: Paperback
Condition: As New
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket