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 Dewey Decimal Number: 324.2747106092 EAN: 9780312096663 ISBN: 0312096666 Label: Bedford/St Martins Manufacturer: Bedford/St Martins Number Of Pages: 148 Publication Date: 1993-08 Publisher: Bedford/St Martins Studio: Bedford/St Martins Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Around the turn of the century George Washington Plunkett challenged the reformers of American city politics who blamed the ills of large cities on political organizations or machines such as New York City's Tammany Hall. Plunkett proposed that the "honest graft" of these machines was the oil that kept these machines and government in motion. His "honest graft" included exploiting privilege information such as buying public land earmarked for development and selling it again at huge personal profit. This book combines historical narrative with historical documents. Terrence J. McDonald is the author of "Inventing Urban Politics: The City and the State in American Political Development, 1880-1980". Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Did these reviewers actually OPEN the book? It's a MISPRINT!!Garbage in, Garbage out. I ordered this for my cousin, who's going into politics, and was astounded, when I looked past the first page, to find that, rather than reading Plunkitt talking about a little "honest graft," I was instead reading GOBSECK, by de Balzac! Oh, the cover says Plunkitt... but it's completely misprinted on the inside. How Amazon and the other reviewers missed this is beyond me. Rating:  - A 19th century political philosophy whose influence is, unfortunately, still feltWilliam L. Riordon's Plunkitt of Tammany Hall is the published political philosophy of George Washington Plunkitt, a well known "ward boss" of the Tammany Hall political machine for twenty-five years. From 1880 Plunkitt rode high in New York City politics until his defeat in the state Senatorial race in 1905, the same year of Riordon's publication. During his time in office Plunkitt grew in wealth and power by introducing bills, some good and some awful, but all beneficial to his bank account. ... Read More Rating:  - Good Book, Bad Edition.I read this for my Political Parties Class. I found the book very interesting, however there were more typos in this book, than in any book I have ever read. I would buy a different edition of this book. This is a reprint from a company that only does reprints of rare books. Find another one to go with, you have to decipher this one. For example, some "I" are replaced with "!", and so on. Very annoying. Rating:  - great, quick deliverydelivery was fast and very efficient. i would buy from this seller again. thanks!! Rating: - An Entertaining Ride through A Bygone Era in PoliticsThis hundred-year-old book is not a traditional non-fiction book. It is actually a series of elocutions on the politics of the day as practiced by a big city "machine," Tammany Hall. This was in the time when parties had direct control over who was allowed to run for office and how spoils would be distributed. This system has been dead in America for nearly fifty years, or at least since national reforms were carried out tin the early 1970s that devolved power down and created lots of mini-campaign, ... Read More 
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