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A journalist, historian, and expert on the Irish American experience tackles the common stereotypes and presents a revisionist version of the notoriously crooked Tammany Hall, describing the crucial social reforms and labor improvements they contributed.

"Historian Terry Golway has written a colorful history of Tammany Hall, which takes a more sympathetic view of the organization than many historians. He says the Tammany machine, while often corrupt, gave impoverished immigrants critically needed social services and a road to assimilation. According to Golway, Tammany was responsible for progressive state legislation that foreshadowed the New Deal. He writes that some of Tammany's harshest critics, including cartoonist Thomas Nast, openly exhibited a raw anti-Irish and anti-Catholic prejudice." --www.npr.org/2014/03/05/286218423/the-case-for-tammany-hall-being-on-the-right-side-of-history

"Tammany Hall belongs to us"

Mass politics

The Great Hunger

Civil War

A Tammany riot

Tammany's Irish Reconstruction

Challenging the Gilded Age

To hell with reform

An admirable organization?

Murphy's law

Frank and Al

The battle of two governors

Legacies.

Tammany Hall (Political organization) > History.

Irish Americans > New York (State) > New York > Politics and government.

Immigrants > Political activity > New York (State) > New York > History.

Progressivism (United States politics) > History.

Municipal government > New York (State) > New York > History.

Politics, Practical > New York (State) > New York > History.

Political corruption > New York (State) > New York > History.

New York (N.Y.) > Politics and government > To 1898.

New York (N.Y.) > Politics and government > 1898-1951.