Honest Graft: The World of George Washington Plunkitt (Plunkitt of Tammany Hall)

by James Olson, William L. Riordon, James Stuart Olson

William L. Riordon's compiling and embroidering of Boss Plunkitt's boastful comments on machine politics constitutes a minor classic in American social history. in an introduction to this edition of the political boss's remarks, James S. Olson, chairman of the history department at Sam Houston State University, and James W. Mooney of American University engage in a provocative exchange over how the boss mentality as Plunkitt expressed it is to be...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1881089584
• ISBN13: 9781881089582
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"