A Response to Progressivism: The Democratic Party and New York Politics, 1902-1918

by Somer Brodribb and Robert F. Wesser

To many reformers of the early twentieth century, "Tammany Hall" came to symbolize all that was baleful and corrupt in American politics. A Response to Progressivism vigorously challenges this view as it applies to "Boss" Charlie Murphy's own "czardom," the city, and, for a time, the state of New York. More than that, the study offers an analysis of the New York Democratic party against a background of profound economic and social change and a truly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814792421
• ISBN13: 9780814792421
• Release Date: July 1986
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 1 Pages