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Boss Tweed - The Story of a Grim Generation (Hardcover)
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Boss Tweed - The Story of a Grim Generation (Hardcover)
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No political scandal in American history has had a greater impact
on America's political consciousness than the rise and fall of the
"Tweed Ring" in New York City between 1866 and 1871. In an age ripe
with scandal both public and private, the spectacular corruption
charged to "Boss" Tweed and his associates-estimates of their
extortion range from $20 million to $200 million-became an enduring
symbol of the dark side of democratic politics.The Tweed Ring
contributed much more than cartoonist impressions; it helped to
shape a powerful theory of political reform. It was in truth one of
the formative events of progressivism, that multifaceted doctrine
that has evolved into the modern American creed. In this sense, the
Tweed Ring was to produce not only deep misgivings about the
existing regime, but an insight into how it should be
reformed.Denis Tilden Lynch's biography of "Boss" Tweed was first
published in 1927, in a time filled, like Tweed's, with sudden
prosperity, daunting problems, and spectacular scandals. It is a
straight-forward, workmanlike study, untroubled by the conceits of
modern historical scholarship, and close enough to its subject's
generation to have some of the immediacy of journalism. Of all the
books published about the Tweed affair, Lynch's study is the only
one that is a genuine biography, in which the man himself is the
focus. For this reason it conveys something of the texture of daily
life in New York in the nineteenth century, while bringing Tweed
out from behind the shadows of Thomas Nast's leering cartoons, and
presenting him, as much as is possible, as a man and not an icon.
An interesting example of Americana, this volume will be of
interest to historians of the period as well as those interested in
American urban and political life.
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