A Stripe of Tammany's Tiger / / Elliot Rosenberg, Louis Eisenstein.
"This book is a highly personal glimpse into the world of precinct, district, and county politics. It deals with several stripes of the Tammany Tiger and brings into close focus some of the most forceful background figures in New York City's political framework. Primarily, it is a forty-ye...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (312 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- I. Once Upon a Tiger
- II. Nurtured in Tammany's Realm
- III. Ahearn the Elder: Squire of the Lower East Side
- IV. Aheam the Younger: Not by Breadbaskets Alone
- V. Days of Grandeur and Grime
- VI. Changing of the Guard: The White House, City Hall, Tammany Hall
- VII. The Little Flower: Scent and Odor
- VIII. Tiger? What Tiger? Do You See a Tiger?
- IX. Years of the Meek "me-ow"
- X. Fission in Fusion: The Little Flower Withers Away
- XI. O'Dwyer: A Knight in Rusty Armor
- XII. War of the Halls: City Hall Versus Tammany Hall
- XIII. "Bashful Berty's" Last Stand
- XIV. The Captains and the Kings Depart
- XV. A Wagnerian Opera Without Music
- XVI. Of Tammany Men, Reformers and Reformed Reformers
- Index