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During the late '50s Koch joined the anti-Tammany reform movement in his new neighborhood, Greenwich Village. After two years on the city council, Koch was elected to Congress in 1968. In the House, Representative Koch has been a down-the-line liberal and-despite his pugnacious stance in...
In spite of Howe's anti-revisionist contention that these strikes transformed the consciousness of thousands of immigrant workers, what remains crucial is that the Jewish socialist goals were never realized. Consequently workers turned to the more traditionally American channels where they gained at the polls what they lost in...
His term as Chancellor was less distinguished. Casting himself as a sort of monetary St. George, he led the costly and ultimately unsuccessful struggle to stave off devaluation of the British pound during the first Wilson government in 1967. At the time, one of his Cabinet colleagues complained: "Jim was...
"Boss" Tweed, corrupt Tammany chief of the 1860s, raised little objection when muckraking reporters prowled city hall. What the papers wrote had no meaning, Tweed liked to boast; his constituency was illiterate. The only criticism that ever bothered or threatened him, the Boss confessed, was "them damn pictures."
A century of history has brought little change. Corruption is still ubiquitous-but so, happily, is the editorial cartoon, grinning out from banks of gray prose. In about 16 square inches, that journalistic institution still manages to encapsulate crises, expose pretensions and eviscerate swollen egos-all with a few well...