Machine Made: Tammany Hall and the Creation of Modern American Politics - Couverture rigide

Golway, Terry

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0871403757 ISBN 13 : 9780871403759

Editeur : Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2014

Synopsis

History casts Tammany Hall as shorthand for the worst of urban politics: graft, crime and patronage personified by notoriously crooked characters. In Machine Made Terry Golway dismantles these stereotypes and presents a starkly revisionist portrait, focusing on the many benefits of machine politics for marginalised and maligned American immigrants. As thousands fled the Irish potato famine and began new lives in New York, the very question of the meaning of democracy and who would be included under its protection was at stake. Tammany's transactional politics were at the heart of crucial social reforms and Golway demonstrates that American labour history cannot be understood without Tammany's profound contribution.

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À propos de l?auteur

Terry Golway was a journalist for thirty years, writing for The New York Observer, The New York Times and other journals. He is the director of the Kean University Center for History, Politics and Policy in New Jersey.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0871403757
• ISBN 13: 9780871403759
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 400
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible