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The Tiger: The Rise and Fall of Tammany Hall. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0201624632. Burrows, Edwin G.; Wallace, Mike (1999). Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-195-11634-8. Connable, Alfred; Silberfarb, Edward (1967). Tigers of Tammany: Nine Men Who Ran New York. New York: Holt ...
Tammany Society members also called him St. Tammany, the Patron Saint of America. [ 1 ] Tammanies are remembered today for New York City's Tammany Hall —also popularly known as the Great Wigwam—but such societies were not limited to New York, with Tammany Societies in several locations in the colonies, and later, the young country.
Bitten by the Tiger: The True Story of Impeachment, the Governor & Tammany Hall is a book written by the New York State politics and government expert Jack O'Donnell and was published by Chapel Hill Press in 2013.
Tammany Tiger may refer to: Tammany Hall , a defunct political organization which was frequently depicted by editorial cartoonists as a tiger The Winnipeg Tammany Tigers , a Canadian football team which played in the 13th Grey Cup
The heroic statue of Chief Tammany, a legendary Delaware Indian chief, was part of the façade of Tammany Hall on 14th Street (1868/9), [7] while the 1869 8.5 feet (2.6 m) bronze statue of Cornelius Vanderbilt, the Commodore Vanderbilt, is located at the south façade of Midtown Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal. [8]
Fiorello! is a musical about New York City mayor Fiorello La Guardia, a reform Republican, which debuted on Broadway in 1959, and tells the story of how La Guardia took on the Tammany Hall political machine.
Thomas Nast's birth certificate issued under the auspices of the King of Bavaria on September 26, 1840 [1]. Thomas Nast (/ n æ s t /; German:; September 26, 1840 [2] – December 7, 1902) was a German-born American caricaturist and editorial cartoonist often considered to be the "Father of the American Cartoon".
Van Wyck is generally regarded as selected by the leaders of Tammany Hall as a man who would do little to interfere with their running of the city. Initially highly popular as a result of his reversal of the various reforms introduced by the preceding Fusion administration, Van Wyck's administration foundered on the so-called "Ice Trust ...