The Tiger: The Rise and Fall of Tammany Hall

by Oliver E. Allen

Book Overview

The first complete history of America's most bizarre and longest-running political act. Stories of chicanery and finagling and rigged elections abound in this look at a bygone era in American politics.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 020162463X
• ISBN13: 9780201624632
• Release Date: November 1993
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 317 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Comprehensive Look at Tammany

Allen takes a huge piece of New York history and channels the runnings of not only New York City, but he state and the nation, into a finely woven account of Tammany power. From Burr to Wood to Tweed to Murphy to De Sapio, he looks at both the good and the bad. An even handed account of Tammany Hall