Tammany Hall   Part 1
Channel: History Unsettled
Date: 2019-02-05

Tammany Hall was the corrupt private organization that controlled New York City's Democratic Party for well over a century.  They were also the only voice speaking for the rights of Irish and Catholic Immigrants.  In this discussion we look at both sides of this powerful institution.  

This is an edited version of the live show which aired on January 30th.

Selected Bibliography

Ackerman, Kenneth D. The Gold Ring : Jim Fisk, Jay Gould, and Black Friday, 1869. Carroll & Graf, 2005

…..Boss Tweed : the rise and fall of the corrupt pol who conceived the soul of modern New York, Carroll & Graf Publishers,2005

Allen, Oliver E. The Tiger: The Rise and Fall of Tammany Hall, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company. 1993.  

Collins, Ben.  The Teen Who Exposed a Professor’s Myth.  The Daily Beast August 1, 2015.  https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-teen-who-exposed-a-professors-myth 

Golway, Terry. Machine Made: Tammany Hall and the Creation of Modern American Politics. W.W. Norton and Company, 2014

Paine, Albert B., Th. Nast, His Period and His Pictures. Princeton: Pyne Press. 1974.

Riordan, William L.,Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: A Series of Very Plain Talks On Very Practical Politics, Delivered byEx-Senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany Philosopher, from His 
Rostrum-The New York County Court House Bootblack Stand. E. P. Dutton,  1969.

Rosenzweig, Roy and Elizabeth Blackmar,The Park and the People : a history of Central Park, Cornell University Press, 1992