Bosses, Machines, and Urban Voters
Political machines, and the bosses who ran them, are largely a relic of the nineteenth century. A prominent feature in nineteenth-century urban politics, political machines mobilized urban voters by providing services in exchange for voters' support of a party or candidate. Allswang examines fo...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Johns Hopkins University Press
2019
2019 |
| Edición: | Open access edition |
| Colección: | Hopkins open publishing encore editions
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009439618106719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface to the 1986 edition
- Of city bosses and college graduates
- William Marcy Tweed: the first boss
- Charles Francis Murphy: the enduring boss
- Big Bill Thompson and Tony Cermak: the rival bosses
- Richard J. Daley: the last boss?
- Black cities, white machines
- Epilogue: Of bosses and bossing.
