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The Society of Tammany was first used as a power instrument by a politician whose contact with the Evil Spirit was more caress than competition: Aaron Burr. In Tammany, which drew its membership from working men and enlisted veterans of the army of the Revolution, Burr saw the perfect political...
From his unofficial throne atop the bootblack stand in the New York County Courthouse, Tammany Sachem George Washington Plunkitt (1842-1924) used to extol the virtues of Tammany Hall. He gloried in the durability of the city machine that went on "flourishin' forever, like fine old oaks. Say, that...
At that, Tammany's roots go deep, and digging among their intricacies has yielded pungent truffles to M. R. Werner (Tammany Hall) and other researchers. The story begins in May 1789, just a few weeks after the U.S. Constitution took effect, when New York City's Society of...
"Look at the bosses of Tammany Hall," cried George Washington Plunkitt. "What magnificent men! To them New York City owes pretty much all it is today . . . What names in American history compare with them, except Washington's and Lincoln's?" Some notes on some of Tammany's...
FERNANDO WOOD, handsome, 6 ft. tall and every inch a charlatan. His mother, during her lying-in period in the year 1812, was reading a popular novel, The Three Spaniards, that had as its hero a derring-do lad named Fernando. She named the baby Fernando-and he spent the...