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269 CHAPTER 1. SAINTS AND SINNERS . Donald A. Grinde and Bruce E. Johansen, Exemplar of Liberty: Native America and the Evolution of Democracy (Los Angeles: University of California, American Indian Studies Center, ), chap. . See also Jerome Mushkat, Tammany: The Evolution of a Political Machine, – (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, ), –. . Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace, Gotham: A History of New York City to  (New York: Oxford University Press, ), . . Oliver E. Allen, The Tiger: The Rise and Fall of Tammany Hall (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, ), . . Information on the Whiskey Rebellion and its impact on Tammany Hall is drawn from Allen’s Tiger, , and Mushkat’s Tammany, –. . Burrows and Wallace, Gotham, . . Ibid., . . Allen, Tiger, . . Ibid., . . Burrows and Wallace, Gotham, . . Ibid., –. . Ibid., . . Mushkat, Tammany, . . For a complete account of the People’s men, see Craig Hanyan with Mary L. Hanyan, DeWitt Clinton and the Rise of the People’s Men (Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, ). . Burrows and Wallace, Gotham, –. . Mushkat, Tammany, . . M. R. Werner, Tammany Hall (New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, ), . . Mushkat, Tammany, . NOTES . Tyler Anbinder, Five Points: The Nineteenth Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World’s Most Notorious Slum (New York: Plume, ), . See also Walt Whitman, Franklin Evans; or, The Inebriate: A Tale of the Times, ed. Christopher Castiglia and Glenn Hendler (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, ), xix. . Anbinder, Five Points, ; Whitman, Franklin Evans, xix. . Amy Bridges, A City in the Republic: Antebellum New York and the Origins of Machine Politics (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, ), . . Burrows and Wallace, Gotham, . . Amy Bridges, “Another Look at Plutocracy and Politics in Antebellum New York City,” Political Science Quarterly  (spring ): . . Bridges, City in the Republic, . CHAPTER 2. TWEED: REFORM’S CHILD AND CHAMPION . Allen, Tiger, . . Burrows and Wallace, Gotham, –. . Allen, Tiger, ; see also Mushkat, Tammany, . . Gustavus Myers, The History of Tammany Hall (New York: Dover, ), ; and Allen, Tiger, . . Burrows and Wallace, Gotham, . . Allen, Tiger, . . T. J. English, Paddywacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster (New York: Regan, ), ; Allen, Tiger, . . “Investigating the Ring,” New York Times, September , . . Allen, Tiger, . . Mushkat, Tammany, . . Ironically, New York’s Whigs, not Tammany and the Democrats, are generally credited with stealing the  presidential election in which Democrat Martin Van Buren lost his home state to Whig William Henry Harrison, the deciding event of the election. . Mushkat, Tammany, ; see also –, . . Bridges, City in the Republic, . . Kenneth D. Ackerman, Boss Tweed: The Rise and Fall of the Corrupt Pol Who Conceived the Soul of Modern New York (New York: Carroll and Graf, ), . . Ibid., –. . David Quigley, Second Founding: New York City, Reconstruction, and the Making of American Democracy (New York: Hill and Wang, ), . NOTES TO PAGES 17–27 270 [18.216.94.152] Project MUSE (2024-04-19 20:45 GMT) . “Tweed’s Latest Stories,” New York Times, September , ; “The Proceedings,” New York Times, September , . . Quigley, Second Founding, –. . Ibid., –. . Ibid., . . Ibid. . New York Times, September , . . “Albany: An Important Day for the City of New York; Passage of Charter and Election Reform Bill,” New York Times, April , . . Ibid. . Ibid. . Ackerman, Boss Tweed, . . Ibid., . . David M. Tucker, Mugwumps: Public Moralists of the Gilded Age (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, ), . . Ackerman, Boss Tweed, . CHAPTER 3. PURIFYING THE POLLS . Quigley, Second Founding, –. . Ibid., . . Ibid., –. See also Sven Beckert, The Municipal Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, – (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, ), –. . Quigley, Second Founding, . . Beckert, Municipal Metropolis, –. . Burrows and Wallace, Gotham, . . Ibid., , . . Beckert, Municipal Metropolis, . . Ibid., . . Quigley, Second Founding, ; see also Burrows and Wallace, Gotham, . . Quigley, Second Founding, –. . Ibid., , . . Burrows and Wallace, Gotham, . . New York Times, August , . . E. L. Godkin, Problems of Modern Democracy: Political and Economic Essays (New York: Scribner’s, ), . NOTES TO PAGES 28–37 271 . “Business Administration,” Nation, October , , p. . . Quigley, Second Founding, . . Robert B. Westbrook, John Dewey and American Democracy (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, ), –. . David I. Aronson, “The City Club of New York, –” (Ph.D. diss., New York University, ), . See also Burrows and Wallace, Gotham, . . Martin J. Schiesl, The Politics of Efficiency: Municipal Administration and Reform in America, – (Berkeley: University of California Press, ), . . Gerald W. McFarland, Mugwumps, Morals, and Politics, – (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, ), . . Allen, Tiger, . . David C. Hammack, Power and Society: Greater New York at the Turn of the Century (New York: Columbia University Press, ), . . “McSweeny Tells His Story; Blaine Refusing to Interfere to Get Him Out of Prison,” New York Times, October , . See also Julia A. Barry, “The AngloIrish Struggle and American Politics,” unpublished paper, . . Hammack, Power...

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