Boss Tweed: the Corrupt Pol who Conceived the Soul of Modern New York (Paperback)

from bontley

breezy, light on early biography. Fascinating otherwise.

from markmobley

As a lover of all things NYC, this book was required reading for me. I was absolutely enthralled at the re-telling of the history. The treatments I got in public education left Boss Tweed as a one dimensional charicature. This book fills out his personality, placing him in historical context as p...

from JustAGirl

The story of Boss Tweed, one of the greatest political swindlers of all time, and how the New York Times and a cartoonist named Thomas Nast brought him down makes for a real page-turner of a book, which is illustrated with many of Nast's cartoons and excepts from the Times (including the table sh...

from JustAGirl

The story of Boss Tweed, one of the greatest political swindlers of all time, and how the New York Times and a cartoonist named Thomas Nast brought him down makes for a real page-turner of a book, which is illustrated with many of Nast's cartoons and excepts from the Times (including the table sh...