Plunkitt of Tammany Hall Author:William L. Riordan George Washington Plunkitt's Very Plain Talks on Practical Politics" is a masterpiece of Americana artfully recorded by Plunkitt's "Boswell", the newspaperman William Riordon. When this book was first published in 1905, Plunkitt (1842-1924) was ward boss of the Fifteenth Assembly District and one of the powers of Tammany Hall when Tammany was s... more »upreme. Boasting of his singular talent for getting the very most out of politics through "honest graft" ("I seen my opportunities and I took 'em."), Plunkitt provides in this irresistible little volume a wonderfully frank and funny analysis of the Tammany machine and the ways to succeed in big-city politics. Both the general reader and the serious student of American political mores will delight in the revelations to be found in these enlightening chapters.« less