Thursday, April 10, 2014

Enhanced ReCast - HOTH12 - History of Tammany Hall series

We continue our audio book series with Gordon Comstock reading chapters 30 and 31 of Gustavus Myer's History of Tammany Hall.

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Chapter Headings in this episode:

Chapter 30 - Tammany Under Absentee Direction, 1901 - 1902

Chapter 31 - Charles F. Murphy's Autocracy, 1902 - 1903


Books/information mentioned in this episode:


 Seth Low



Edward M. Shepard



Robert Anderson Van Wyck



Mayoral campaign ad opposing Tammany 



















Richard Croker



Lewis Nixon


Tammany leaders in 1902:
-Daniel F. McMahon
-Louis F. Haffen
-Charles F. Murphy


 "Silent Charlie"



Gas House District

Gas House Gang


Colonel John N. Partridge



General Francis V. Greene



Ferdinand Lundberg


The Rich and the Super-Rich: A Study in the Power of Money Today


George B. McClellan, Jr.










Other relevant information:

Professor Brian Ferguson on the real gangs of NYC 



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