William Riordon

As a reporter for the «New York Evening Post» during the time of New York's Tammany Hall Machine, William Riordan compiled and published this work in 1905 from a series of articles he wrote on George Washington Plunkitt, the millionaire ward boss of New York's 15th District. Plunkitt is best remembered as a streetwise politician who practiced what he called «honest graft,» or what is otherwise known today as «machine politics.» Of the Tammany Hall bosses, he alone spoke candidly and on...