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A major, surprising new history of New Yorks most famous political machineTammany Hallrevealing, beyond the vice and corruption, a birthplace of progressive urban politics. For decades, history has considered Tammany Hall, New York's famous political machine, shorthand for the worst of urban graft, crime, and patronage personified by notoriously corrupt characters. Infamous crooks like William "Boss" Tweed dominate traditional histories of Tammany, distorting our understanding of a critical chapter of American political history. In Machine Made , historian and New York City journalist Terry Golway convincingly dismantles these stereotypes; Tammany's corruption was real, but so was its heretofore forgotten role in protecting marginalized and maligned immigrants in desperate need of a political voice. Irish immigrants arriving in New York during the nineteenth century faced an unrelenting onslaught of hyperbolic, nativist propaganda. They were voiceless in a city that proved, time and again, that real power remained in the hands of the mercantile elite, not with a crush of ragged newcomers flooding its streets. Haunted by fresh memories of the horrific Irish potato famine in the old

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Author

Golway, Terry, 1955-

Publisher

New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780871403759

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, Political Science, History

Rating

3.9 / 5 (145 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14