Product Description: Plunkitt becomes wealthy by practicing what he calls "honest graft" in politics. He's a cynically honest practitioner of what today is generally known as "machine politics," patronage-based and frank in its exercise of power for personal gain...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: This unique anthology chronicles the Plains Indians' struggle to maintain their traditional way of life in the changing world of the nineteenth century. Its rich variety of 34 primary sources - including narratives, myths, speeches, and transcribed oral histories - gives students the rare opportunity to view the transformation of the West from Native American perspective...read more

In this one hundredth anniversary edition, a series of frank and unabashed discussions between George Washington Plunkitt, a key politician of Tammany Hall, and William L. Riordan, a sharp-eared and sympathetic reporter, reveals Plunkitt's successful political strategies. Reissue. (view table of contents)