Plunkitt of Tammany Hall
A Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics
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In the days of Tammany Hall, politicians like George Washington Plunkitt spent their careers in service to the city - but first and foremost in the service of the political machine. Plunkitt seems never to have doubted exactly where he stood on the deeply corrupt yet amazingly effective politics and government in which he spent his life; he was entirely in favor of it and gave it his devoted service while becoming a millionaire in return. He was instrumental in expanding the New York City park system and in creating the Museum of Natural History, the 155th Street Viaduct, and many other public improvements - and he profited handsomely from his insider's knowledge of the real estate aspects of them all.
In this audiobook, William L. Riordan, one of the "muckracker" journalists, records Plunkitt's take on politics in Plunkitt's own words - as delivered from the bootblack stand at the New York County Courthouse, Plunkitt's only office. His take on life, politics, and morality is as delightfully frank as it is astonishingly cynical. Enjoy!
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As he did so masterfully in The Jungle, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Upton Sinclair interweaves social criticism with human tragedy to create an unforgettable portrait of Southern California's early oil industry. Enraged by the oil scandals of the Harding administration in the 1920s, Sinclair tells a gripping tale of avarice, corruption, and class warfare, featuring a cavalcade of characters, including senators, oil magnates, Hollywood film starlets, and a crusading evangelist.
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5 out of 5 stars
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an outstanding book
- De Gregory en 05-18-08
De: Upton Sinclair
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Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Being the Letters Written by John Graham
- Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago
- De: George Horace Lorimer
- Narrado por: Alan Taylor
- Duración: 4 h y 2 m
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George Horace Lorimer is best known as the editor of The Saturday Evening Post, where he was credited with promoting and discovering authors like Jack London. Lorimer compiled his life advice into the fictional letters from John "Old Gorgon" Graham to his son Pierrepont. John Graham is a Chicago-based pork and finance baron. In the letters Pierrepont receives advice for his different stages of life. Old Gorgon's advice is packed throughout the book, easy to understand, and still rings true today.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great but those were the times...
- De Harold en 08-20-18
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The Path to Power
- The Years of Lyndon Johnson
- De: Robert A. Caro
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 40 h y 29 m
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 3,298
This is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill Country. The Path to Power reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy, and ambition that set LBJ apart. It follows him from the Hill Country to New Deal Washington, from his boyhood through the years of the Depression to his debut as Congressman, his heartbreaking defeat in his first race for the Senate, and his attainment, nonetheless, at age 31, of the national power for which he hungered.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Best of all Biographies
- De David C. Daggett en 12-14-13
De: Robert A. Caro
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Plain Speaking
- An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman
- De: Merle Miller
- Narrado por: Chris Andrew Ciulla
- Duración: 15 h y 5 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Plain Speaking is a book based on conversations between Merle Miller and the thirty-third President of the United States, Harry S. Truman. From these interviews, as well as others who knew him over the years, Miller transcribes Truman’s feisty takes on everything from his personal life, military service, and political career to the challenges he faced in taking the office during the final days of World War II and the beginning of the Cold War.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of my favorites, so far!
- De johnsoneliza en 07-23-20
De: Merle Miller
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Defining Moments in Black History
- Reading Between the Lies
- De: Dick Gregory
- Narrado por: James Shippy
- Duración: 7 h y 37 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,994
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 3,470
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,471
With his trademark acerbic wit, incisive humor, and infectious paranoia, one of our foremost comedians and most politically engaged civil rights activists looks back at 100 key events from the complicated history of Black America. Defining Moments in Black History is an essential, no-holds-bar history lesson that will provoke, enlighten, and entertain.
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3 out of 5 stars
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How we see the world matters to how we tell storie
- De Adam Shields en 10-03-18
De: Dick Gregory
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Wicked Portland
- The Wild and Lusty Underworld of a Frontier Seaport Town
- De: Finn J.D. John
- Narrado por: Finn J.D. John
- Duración: 4 h y 21 m
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In its youth, Portland, Oregon, was a bit like a rough-and-ready logging camp with a gritty, hard-punching deep-water port. Lusty lads dallied with hard-eyed beauties in dark alleys, and captains forked over “blood money” to buy men for their crews from shanghai operators. From the seedy waterfront to the notorious North End, Portland's sin sector offered vices packaged in pint glasses and perfumed corsets.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Polished & Pleasing
- De James en 07-19-15
De: Finn J.D. John
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Frank and Al
- FDR, Al Smith, and the Unlikely Alliance That Created the Modern Democratic Party
- De: Terry Golway
- Narrado por: Danny Campbell
- Duración: 11 h y 46 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 31
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Just before the Roaring Twenties, Al Smith, a proud son of the Tammany Hall political machine, and Franklin Roosevelt, a country squire, formed an unlikely alliance that transformed the Democratic Party. Smith and FDR dominated politics in the most-powerful state in the union for a quarter-century, and in 1932, they ran against each other for the Democratic presidential nomination, setting off one of the great feuds in American history. The relationship between Smith and Roosevelt, portrayed here, is one of the most dramatic untold stories of early 20th-century American politics.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The relationship between FDR and Al Smith.
- De Josephine Halpert en 01-18-25
De: Terry Golway
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Coolidge
- De: Amity Shlaes
- Narrado por: Terence Aselford
- Duración: 21 h y 4 m
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 815
Calvin Coolidge, president from 1923 to 1929, never rated highly in polls, and history has remembered the decade in which he served as an extravagant period predating the Great Depression. Now Amity Shlaes provides a fresh look at the 1920s and its elusive president, showing that the mid-1920s was in fact a triumphant period that established our modern way of life: The nation electrified, Americans drove their first cars, and the federal deficit was replaced with a surplus.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Silent Cal
- De Jean en 02-19-13
De: Amity Shlaes
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Lady Bird Johnson
- An Oral History
- De: Michael L. Gillette
- Narrado por: Corinna May
- Duración: 17 h y 28 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 21
Over a span of 18 years, Lady Bird Johnson recorded 47 oral history interviews with Michael Gillette and his colleagues. These conversations, just released in 2011, form the heart of Lady Bird Johnson: An Oral History, an intimate story of a shy young country girl's transformation into one of America's most effective and admired First Ladies.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic
- De Syd Young en 06-01-19
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The Mansion
- De: William Faulkner
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 15 h y 18 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 118
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The Mansion tells of Mink Snopes, whose archaic sense of honor brings about the downfall of his cousin, Flem. "For all his concern with the South, Faulkner was actually seeking out the nature of man," noted Ralph Ellison. "Thus we must turn to him for that continuity of moral purpose which made for the greatness of our classics." This volume includes a new introduction to the trilogy by acclaimed novelist George Garrett, author of Death of the Fox and The Succession.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Mink Cometh
- De daniel fam en 11-01-12
De: William Faulkner
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Black No More
- De: George S. Schuyler
- Narrado por: Sean Crisden
- Duración: 5 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 134
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According to Max Disher, an ambitious young black man in 1930s New York, someone of his race has only three alternatives: "Get out, get white, or get along." Incapable of getting out and unhappy with getting along, Max leaps at the remaining possibility. Thanks to a certain Dr. Junius Crookman and his mysterious process, Max and other eager clients develop bleached skin that permits them to enter previously forbidden territory. What they discover in white society, however, gives them second thoughts.
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5 out of 5 stars
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outrageous!
- De Jennifer en 07-31-18
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One Man Great Enough
- Abraham Lincoln's Road to Civil War
- De: John C. Waugh
- Narrado por: David Drummond
- Duración: 12 h
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Abraham Lincoln is the central axis of this story about America's seemingly unstoppable march toward war, the shattering of its political landscape, and its grappling with the moral underpinnings of a republic of the people, by the people, and for the people.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good historical review
- De JS en 10-01-12
De: John C. Waugh
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World’s End
- The Lanny Budd Novels, Book 1
- De: Upton Sinclair
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 26 h y 56 m
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Lanning “Lanny” Budd spends his first 13 years in Europe, living at the center of his mother’s glamourous circle of friends on the French Riviera. In 1913, he enters a prestigious Swiss boarding school and befriends Rick, an English boy, and Kurt, a German. The three schoolmates are privileged, happy, and precocious - but their world is about to come to an abrupt and violent end. When the gathering storm clouds of war finally burst, raining chaos and death over the continent, Lanny must put the innocence of youth behind him.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very good
- De Lynda en 07-13-22
De: Upton Sinclair
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Worst. President. Ever.
- James Buchanan, the POTUS Rating Game, and the Legacy of the Least of the Lesser Presidents
- De: Robert Strauss
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 8 h y 51 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 444
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 413
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 413
Worst. President. Ever. flips the great presidential biography on its head, offering an enlightening - and highly entertaining - account of poor James Buchanan's presidency to prove once and for all that, well, few leaders could have done worse. But author Robert Strauss does much more, leading listeners out of Buchanan's terrible term in office to explore with insight and humor his own obsession with presidents, and ultimately the entire notion of ranking our presidents.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Intriguing
- De Jean en 01-14-17
De: Robert Strauss
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Beale Street Dynasty
- Sex, Song, and the Struggle for the Soul of Memphis
- De: Preston Lauterbach
- Narrado por: Mirron Willis
- Duración: 10 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 32
Following the Civil War, Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee, thrived as a cauldron of sex and song, violence and passion. But out of this turmoil emerged a center of black progress, optimism, and cultural ferment. Preston Lauterbach tells this vivid, fascinating story through the multigenerational saga of a family whose ambition, race pride, and moral complexity indelibly shaped the city that would loom so large in American life.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Narration Speed...It's Half the Battle
- De B. Westman en 03-21-17
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Truman
- De: David McCullough
- Narrado por: Nelson Runger
- Duración: 54 h y 11 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 5,335
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 4,710
Hailed by critics as an American masterpiece, David McCullough's sweeping biography of Harry S. Truman captured the heart of the nation. The life and times of the 33rd president of the United States, Truman provides a deeply moving look at an extraordinary, singular American.
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5 out of 5 stars
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That Mousy Little Man From Missouri Revisited
- De Sara en 07-23-15
De: David McCullough
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Ten North Frederick
- De: John O'Hara, Jonathan Dee - introduction
- Narrado por: Scott Aiello
- Duración: 17 h y 48 m
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 59
Joe Chapin led a storybook life. A successful small-town lawyer with a beautiful wife, two over-achieving children, and aspirations to be president, he seemed to have it all. But as his daughter looks back on his life, a different man emerges: one in conflict with his ambitious and shrewish wife, terrified that the misdeeds of his children will dash his political dreams, and in love with a model half his age.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story
- De Amazon Customer en 12-26-23
De: John O'Hara, y otros
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Plunkitt of Tammany Hall
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- narrowback slacker
- 02-23-17
An utterly charming look at politics and graft
I stumbled across an excerpt from this book while editing a US History reader a while back, and was immediately charmed. Grabbed the ebook/audible bundle and can highly recommend both. Plunkitt is a character, and his little homilies on NYC, graft, and in particular the political machine that made this city such a plum landing pad for Irish immigrants provide telling insights into our particular immigrant story. Riordan's introduction provides valuable context, and Robert Bethune's gives an audiobook performance worthy of a one man stage show.
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