Bosses, Machines, and Urban Voters /
Political machines, and the bosses who ran them, are largely a relic of the nineteenth century. A prominent feature in nineteenth-century urban politics, political machines mobilized urban voters by providing services in exchange for voters' support of a party or candidate. Allswang examines fo...
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2019
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| Edició: | Open access edition. |
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Taula de continguts:
- Preface to the 1986 edition
- Of city bosses and college graduates
- William Marcy Tweed: the first boss
- Charles Francis Murphy: the enduring boss
- Big Bill Thompson and Tony Cermak: the rival bosses
- Richard J. Daley: the last boss?
- Black cities, white machines
- Epilogue: Of bosses and bossing.