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Plunkitt Of Tammany Hall
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Author : William L. Riordon
language : en
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Release Date : 2020-08-12
Plunkitt Of Tammany Hall written by William L. Riordon and has been published by Courier Dover Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-12 with Political Science categories.
This volume presents the candid wit and wisdom of George Washington Plunkitt (1842-1924), a longtime New York City ward boss and Tammany Hall player. Plunkitt, a cynically honest practitioner of machine politics, reveals the secrets to the political success of Tammany Hall operatives, freely discussing his patronage-based appointments and exercise of power for personal gain.
Plunkitt Of Tammany Hall
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Author : George Washington Plunkitt
language : en
Publisher: Book Jungle
Release Date : 2008
Plunkitt Of Tammany Hall written by George Washington Plunkitt and has been published by Book Jungle this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Fiction categories.
Tammany Hall was one of the most colorful political machines in U S history and George Washington Plunkitt was in the thick of it. George Plunkitt was an early 20th century New York politician. Plunkitt was a powerful State Senator. He was a wealthy man earning his wealth from what he termed "honest graft". He was a member of Tammany Hall and believed in the patronage system and using power for personal gain. Plunkitt described honest graft as buying land that he knew would be needed someday for a pubic use and then selling it at an inflated price. Dishonest graft would be buying land and then using his influence to have a project built on it. This series of talks by an extremely interesting politician is a wonderful glimpse into the famous Tammany Hall.
Plunkitt Of Tammany Hall
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Author : George Washington Plunkitt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011-02
Plunkitt Of Tammany Hall written by George Washington Plunkitt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02 with Political Science categories.
This little classic, which was once titled "Honest Graft and Dishonest Graft," was written by George Plunkitt. It provides an entertaining if somewhat discouraging description of why politics is driven by money and why reformers are merely a flash in the pan. Another topic covered in the book, "The difference between honest graft and dishonest graft" is equally alive and well among modern politicians. A modern politician accused of exactly the type of real estate speculation Plunkitt uses as his example of "honest" graft occurred just a few years ago. The politician sat on a committee that determined the site of government project and bought up the land before the project was revealed to the public. When confronted his response was, "I didn't break any laws." As Plunkitt would have said, he was only practicing honest graft. Plunkitt was a crony of the infamous William M. "Boss" Tweed, who created and presided over a Democrat, ward based patronage form of government in the City of New York in the mid to late 19th century referred to then as and now "Tammany Hall." Plunkitt was one of his side-kicks who participated in all of the perks of office and had the ability to discuss his "work" with justifications worthy of the best wit of Mark Twain. It is no coincidence that this little jewel of amateur literature has remained in print for over 100 years.
Plunkitt Of Tammany Hall A Series Of Very Plain Talks On Very Practical Politics
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Author : William Riordon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-06-08
Plunkitt Of Tammany Hall A Series Of Very Plain Talks On Very Practical Politics written by William Riordon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-08 with categories.
This anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks. For those who have known and loved these works in the past, this is an invitation to reunite with old friends in a fresh new format. From Shakespeare's finesse to Oscar Wilde's wit, this unique collection brings together works as diverse and influential as The Pilgrim's Progress and Othello. As an anthology that invites readers to immerse themselves in the masterpieces of the literary giants, it is must-have addition to any library.
Plunkitt Of Tammany Hall
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Author : George Plunkitt
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2018-10-21
Plunkitt Of Tammany Hall written by George Plunkitt and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-21 with categories.
THIS volume discloses the mental operations of perhaps the most thoroughly practical politician of the day-George Washington Plunkitt, Tammany leader of the Fifteenth Assembly District, Sachem of the Tammany Society and Chairman of the Elections Committee of Tammany Hall, who has held the offices of State Senator, Assemblyman', Police Magistrate, County Supervisor and Alderman, and who boasts of his record in filling four public offices in one year and drawing salaries from three of them at the same time. The discourses that follow were delivered by him from his rostrum, the bootblack stand in the County Court-house, at various times in the last half-dozen years. Their absolute frankness and vigorous unconventionality of thought and expression charmed me. Plunkitt said right out what all practical politicians think but are afraid to say. Some of the discourses I published as interviews in the New York Evening Post, the New York Sun, the New York World, and the Boston Transcript. They were reproduced in newspapers throughout the country and several of them, notably the talks on "The Curse of Civil Service Reform" and "Honest Graft and Dishonest Graft," became subjects of discussion in the United States Senate and in college lectures. There seemed to be a general recognition of Plunkitt as a striking type of the practical politician, a politician, moreover, who dared to say publicly what others in his class whisper among themselves in the City Hall corridors and the hotel lobbies.
Plunkitt Of Tammany Hall
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Author : George Plunkitt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-08-01
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"'Plunkitt of Tammany Hall' contained the musings of George Washington Plunkitt (1842-1924), the powerful Irish-American politician. It would never be associated with works by Locke, Rousseau and Jefferson, but the book became a classic piece of American literature that explained the workings of the Irish-dominated urban political machine." -The Irish Echo "For more than forty years he has seen the political game played in New York city....His has been the peculiar distinction of holding four offices at one and the same time and drawing salaries for three of them....He is the old fashioned type of the professional politician, even in Tammany Hall, but he has a shrewd, homely sense that is not to be learned from books and that wold be invaluable in a man without the moral crookedness that afflicts this man." -Public Opinion "Discourses of a veteran Tammany district leader, in which he discusses political subjects with utter frankness and great picturesqueness of language. 'Practical politics' is portrayed from the inside by one of the most 'practical' of politicians, a man who has become a millionaire by knowing how to take advantage of his opportunities and how to make opportunities to take advantage of. A prefatory note by Mr. Charles Murphy, leader of Tammany Hall, indorsing Mr. Plunkitt, gives the book a semi-official character as an exposition of Tammany principles." -New Outlook "The reading public owes a debt of gratitude to Riordon, his discoverer. 'Plunkitt of Tammany Hall' is every bit as entertaining as 'Mr. Dooley.' A 'character' has been added to literature." -New York Globe "New York's most colorful Tammany boss." -New York Magazine "'Plunkitt of Tammany Hall' is not the only American who believes in 'honest graft.' Doers of evil have a practical sense of relativity in ethics as well as professors of ethics in our universities, who approach the subject theoretically. Though this expression comes from a Tammany heeler grown rich by 'graft,' it shows the profound need of restoration of the conception of the absolute in ethics, which a thousand and one things in our contemporary life demonstrate." -The Congregationalist and Christian World "Both witty and wise." -The Bookman Contents Preface A Tribute to Plunkitt by the Leader of Tammany Hall Chapter 1. Honest Graft and Dishonest Graft Chapter 2. How to Become a Statesman Chapter 3. The Curse of Civil Service Reform Chapter 4. Reformers Only Mornin' Glories Chapter 5. New York City Is Pie for the Hayseeds Chapter 6. To Hold Your District: Study Human Nature and Act Accordin' Chapter 7. On The Shame of the Cities Chapter 8. Ingratitude in Politics Chapter 9. Reciprocity in Patronage Chapter 10. Brooklynites Natural-Born Hayseeds Chapter 11. Tammany Leaders Not Bookworms Chapter 12. Dangers of the Dress Suit in Politics Chapter 13. On Municipal Ownership Chapter 14. Tammany the Only Lastin' Democracy Chapter 15. Concerning Gas in Politics Chapter 16. Plunkitt's Fondest Dream Chapter 17. Tammany's Patriotism Chapter 18. On the Use of Money in Politics Chapter 19. The Successful Politician Does Not Drink Chapter 20. Bosses Preserve the Nation Chapter 21. Concerning Excise Chapter 22. A Parting Word on the Future of the Democratic Party in Chapter 23. Strenuous Life of the Tammany District Leader
Honest Graft
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Author : William L. Riordon
language : en
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Release Date : 2006-11-10
Honest Graft written by William L. Riordon and has been published by Wiley-Blackwell this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11-10 with History categories.
William L. Riordon's compiling and embroidering of Boss Plunkitt's boastful comments on machine politics constitutes a minor classic in American social history. in an introduction to this edition of the political boss's remarks, James S. Olson, chairman of the history department at Sam Houston State University, and James W. Mooney of American University engage in a provocative exchange over how the boss mentality as Plunkitt expressed it is to be judged. Thereby they complicate and enrich a reader's perception of the practical devices and ethical ambiguities of popular politics. "Tammany Hall was far more than a disinterested detached city government for several million poor, working-class New Yorkers. It was also a successful city government delivering municipal services, a social welfare agency assisting the immigrant poor and their children in adjusting to the new country, a political interest group giving working-class people at least a modest voice in an economic world increasingly dominated by rich corporations." --James S. Olson "In essence: the machine politicos, for all their genuine resonance with their constituencies, saw the average voter as a creature of appetite; the scientific progressives, for all their hauteur, expected something better of the public and were prepared to work for it." --James W. Mooney
Plunkitt Of Tammany Hall
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language : en
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Release Date : 2015-05-14
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"Plunkitt of Tammany Hall" from George W. Plunkitt. American politician from New York (1842-1924).
Plunkitt Of Tammany Hall A Series Of Very Plain Talks On Very Practical Politics
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Author : George W. Plunkitt
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2023-09-03
Plunkitt Of Tammany Hall A Series Of Very Plain Talks On Very Practical Politics written by George W. Plunkitt and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-03 with Fiction categories.
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Plunkitt Of Tammany Hall
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Author : William L. Riordin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-11-07
Plunkitt Of Tammany Hall written by William L. Riordin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
As a reporter for the "New York Evening Post" during the time of New York's Tammany Hall Machine, William L. Riordan compiled and published this work in 1905 from a series of articles he wrote on George Washington Plunkitt, the millionaire ward boss of New York's 15th District. Plunkitt is best remembered as a streetwise politician who practiced what he called "honest graft", or what is otherwise known today as "machine politics". Of the Tammany Hall bosses, he alone spoke candidly and on the record about how to get and successfully retain political power and wealth. This collection of interviews is an honest and accurate account of Plunkitt's critical analysis of social reformers and the federal government, void of editorial gloss and comment, and preserving the original speech and slang which made Plunkitt notorious. "Plunkitt of Tammany Hall" has given generations of scholars insight into the controversy, animosity, corruption, and sensationalism of the American political machine in its heyday. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.