George Washington Plunkitt was born into poverty in New York in
1842. He had only three years of formal schooling, but this lack
did not hinder him from becoming one of the most powerful men in
New York City politics. He died in 1924, a renowned civic leader
and a millionaire.
William L. Riordan, a newspaperman for the New York Evening Post,
interviewed George Washington Plunkitt and preserved his philosophy
for posterity. He recognized in Plunkitt an exceptional frankness
that set him apart from his fellow political bosses. In Plunkitt of
Tammany Hall Riordan admits readers into an area of life that
mystified middle-class Americans at the turn of the twentieth
century.
Peter Quinn is a former speechwriter for Mario Cuomo and the author
of Banished Children of Eve- A Novel of Civil War New York.
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