Tweed's New York: Another Look

by Leo Hershkowitz

Tweed's New Another Leo Tweed's New Another Anchor Press/ FIRST First Edition Thus, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1978. Octavo. Paperback. Book is very good with light shelf wear, previous seller stamp on half-title page, and publisher spray on bottom page ends. Seller 378453 History

Genres: History

409 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1978

Reviews

[Tigbench]

I Leo did an amazing job with his research, he has tons of sourcres and infromation on a corrupt state's government, that no history teacher would ever quiz you on for normal credit. Credit is definately a subject that I can't give this author enough of, there is pleanty of information that would satisfy any historian. Tammany Hall is a government building nobody talks about anymore. With all the journalism quotes, speeches, qoutes of the Tammany Tiger and his circus that is to be found. There is just a little too much information for my liking, not to say I don't apreciate his reasoning and proof to all the claims and events in the book. Leo difinately has a good qualities of a good author, for example he can put you back into the mid-1800's and a good view of the public and their views on the hall. Then the Boss Tweed has his own ideas of the people and his thoughts are inscribed into the pages of this massive encyclopedia of mid-1800's politics. Tere is no broadcast left unnoted and no other sources are needed to get a clear, unbiased view of Tammany Hall's purpose and influence. If are not completely into history with all of your heart, then this is not the book for you.

[P.J. Sullivan]

Claims that New York politician Boss Tweed was not so bad after all, just a victim of irresponsible journalism and Nast cartoons. Hershkowitz argues that the notorious "Tweed ring" was a creation of journalists with newspapers to sell. That the bookkeeping figures that sent Tweed to prison were "taken from someone's hat." "Figures flew like confetti at a mad hatters' ball." That the defiant quotation attributed to Tweed—"What are you going to do about it?"—came from a Nast cartoon. Interesting points and worth considering. Probably some truth to them, but I doubt that they change the basic facts about Tweed's epic corruption.

[Seán]

Hershkowitz is a guy whose brain should be preserved by the New-York Historical Society. If I were a mad geneticist, I would do a Watson and Crick/Weird Science and remake myself as two parts Joseph Mitchell to one part Hershkowitz.