Doomed by Cartoon: How Cartoonist Thomas Nast and the New York Times Brought Down Boss Tweed and His Ring of ThievesMorgan James Publishing, 1 באוג׳ 2008 - 332 עמודים The legendary Boss Tweed effectively controlled New York City from after the Civil War until his downfall in November 1871. A huge man, he and his Ring of Thieves appeared to be invincible as they stole an estimated $2 billion in today's dollars. In addition to the New York city and state governments, the Tweed Ring controlled the press except for Harper's Weekly. Short and slight Thomas Nast was the most dominant American political cartoonist of all time; using his pen as his sling in Harper's Weekly, he attacked Tweed almost single-handily before The New-York Times joined the battle in 1870. Where "Doomed by Cartoon" differs from previous books about Boss Tweed is its focus on looking at circumstances and events as Thomas Nast visualized them in his 160-plus cartoons, almost like a serialized but intermittent comic book covering 1866 through 1978. It has been organized to tell the Nast vs. Tweed story so that readers with an interest in politics history and/or cartoons will enjoy. |
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I Introduction | 1 |
II Cast of Caricatures | 4 |
III Setting the Stage | 18 |
IV The Battle for Public Opinion | 39 |
18631865 | 50 |
18661868 | 60 |
18691870 | 72 |
The Climatic Year Begins | 92 |
XI The Election Results | 170 |
What Happened to the Bad Guys | 180 |
1871 1875 | 225 |
1876 1878 | 245 |
XV What Happened to Thomas Nast | 272 |
XVI Epilogue | 288 |
William M Tweed Romance Of His Flight and Exile | 290 |
310 | |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
American appeared April arrest associates bail ballot Barnard Bill Board Boss Tweed campaign candidate caricature cartoonist Charles O'Conor City Hall City Treasury city's Commissioner Committee of Seventy comptroller Connolly's corruption County Court David Dudley Field December Democratic Party Doomed By Cartoon editorial election former fraud fraudulent friends George William Curtis Governor Hoffman Greeley's Hall's Hank Smith Harper's Weekly Harper's Weekly issue Harper's Weekly published HONEST Horace Greeley illustration Irish issue of Harper's jail January Jim Fisk John Hoffman JOURNAL OF CIVILIZATION Judge July jury Justice later legislature Mayor Hall Mayor Oakey Hall Nast's cartoons Nathaniel Sands New-York newspaper November Oakey Hall October Peter Sweeny police political President prison REFORM Richard Connolly Ring's Riot Samuel scene senate September Sheriff STEAL Tammany Hall Tammany Ring Tammany Tiger Loose Tammany's THIEVES Thomas Nast Tilden trial Tribune Tweed Ring vote voters vouchers weeks York City