Report Of The Special Committee Of The Assembly Appointed To Investigate The Public Offices And Departments Of The City Of New York And Of The Counties Therein Included

Author : New York (State). Legislature. Assembly. Special Committee to investigate the public offices and departments of the city of New York
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Total Pages : 1230 pages
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Download or read book Report of the Special Committee of the Assembly Appointed to Investigate the Public Offices and Departments of the City of New York and of the Counties Therein Included written by New York (State). Legislature. Assembly. Special Committee to investigate the public offices and departments of the city of New York and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 1230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wallace Sayre
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN 13 : 1610446860
Total Pages : 836 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Governing New York City written by Wallace Sayre and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 1960-12-31 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This widely acclaimed study of political power in a metropolitan community portrays the political system in its entirety and in balance—and retains much of the drama, the excitement, and the special style of New York City. It discusses the stakes and rules of the city's politics, and the individuals, groups, and official agencies influencing government action.

Author : New Hampshire State Library
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Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Author List of the New Hampshire State Library, June 1, 1902 ... written by New Hampshire State Library and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : New Hampshire State Library
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Total Pages : 444 pages
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Download or read book Author List of the New Hampshire State Library written by New Hampshire State Library and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Steven A. Riess
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815651546
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sport of Kings and the Kings of Crime written by Steven A. Riess and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-24 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoroughbred racing was one of the first major sports in early America. Horse racing thrived because it was a high-status sport that attracted the interest of both old and new money. It grew because spectators enjoyed the pageantry, the exciting races, and, most of all, the gambling. As the sport became a national industry, the New York metropolitan area, along with the resort towns of Saratoga Springs (New York) and Long Branch (New Jersey), remained at the center of horse racing with the most outstanding race courses, the largest purses, and the finest thoroughbreds. Riess narrates the history of horse racing, detailing how and why New York became the national capital of the sport from the mid-1860s until the early twentieth century. The sport’s survival depended upon the racetrack being the nexus between politicians and organized crime. The powerful alliance between urban machine politics and track owners enabled racing in New York to flourish. Gambling, the heart of racing’s appeal, made the sport morally suspect. Yet democratic politicians protected the sport, helping to establish the State Racing Commission, the first state agency to regulate sport in the United States. At the same time, racetracks became a key connection between the underworld and Tammany Hall, enabling illegal poolrooms and off-course bookies to operate. Organized crime worked in close cooperation with machine politicians and local police officers to protect these illegal operations. In The Sport of Kings and the Kings of Crime, Riess fills a long-neglected gap in sports history, offering a richly detailed and fascinating chronicle of thoroughbred racing’s heyday.

Author : Clifton K. Yearley
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873950725
Total Pages : 410 pages
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Download or read book The Money Machines written by Clifton K. Yearley and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1970-01-01 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Money Machines advances the provocative thesis that the mechanisms for financing state and local government in the Northern United States from 1860 to 1920 were deeply enmeshed with those financing the extralegal--often illegal--activities of the major political parties, complicating reform or change mandated by the post-Civil War breakdown of the North's legal fiscal machinery. Few reformers then recognized the interdependence of government and the party money machines; fewer still acknowledged the effectiveness or social value of the extralegal machines. On the contrary, basic fiscal reform in this period was characterized by attempts to exorcise "politics" in any form, which in turn provoked counteraction from politicians whose organizations had the same need for efficient, reliable revenue systems as did governments. Dr. Yearley demonstrates the failure of the established legal money machines to cope with the demands of postwar governments facing industrialization and urbanization. He characterizes the revolt of old and new middle classes against fiscal inequity and inefficiency and shows how much of the North's new wealth escaped taxation altogether while much of its old wealth similarly went into hiding. Because of its forbidding complexities, tax reform was sustained by a small group of experts from the middle class, whose sincerity and competence were unquestionable, but whose reformism evidenced the peculiar views and prejudices of their class. Here, therefore, the graft-grabbing politician is presented in a fresh light. In his efforts to maintain his sources of revenue and power, he emerges as a vital instrument of mass democracy, of the new politics of the ever-growing urban lower classes as well as their principal source of government welfare or support. The author reevaluates the Gilded Age politician in several important ways, principally regarding his power relationship to the business communities and his ability to perform his job well despite middle class disdain and continual allegations of fraud and incompetence. Further, Dr. Yearley shows that often politicians were ahead of reformers in their fiscal thinking in recognizing and utilizing taxation of income rather than of property. The volume considers in some depth several individual reformers, revealing them to be, among other things, prototypes of present academic experts used by government to manage problems too complex for laymen. The book then proceeds to explain essential changes made in local fiscal systems and which of these were to be the most effective, explanations that are of particular interest in view of the continuing crises in state and local financing today.

Author : Jeffrey Scott McIllwain
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786481277
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Organizing Crime in Chinatown written by Jeffrey Scott McIllwain and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a century ago, organized criminals were intrinsically involved with the political, social, and economic life of the Chinese American community. In the face of virulent racism and substantial linguistic and cultural differences, they also integrated themselves successfully into the extensive underworlds and corrupt urban politics of the Progressive Era United States. The process of organizing crime in Chinese American communities can be attributed in part to the larger politics that created opportunities for professional criminals. For example, the illegal traffic in women, laborers, and opium was an unintended consequence of "yellow peril" laws meant to provide social control over Chinese Americans. Despite this hostile climate, Chinese professional criminals were able to form extensive multiethnic social networks and purchase protection and some semblance of entrepreneurial equality from corrupt politicians, police officers, and bureaucrats. While other Chinese Americans worked diligently to remove racist laws and regulations, Chinatown gangsters saw opportunity for profit and power at the expense of their own community. Academics, the media, and the government have claimed that Chinese organized crime is a new and emerging threat to the United States. Focusing on events and personalities, and drawing on intensive archival research in newspapers, police and court documents, district attorney papers, and municipal reports, as well as from contemporary histories and sociological treatments, this study tests that claim against the historical record.

Author : Morris Robert Werner
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Total Pages : 652 pages
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Download or read book Tammany Hall written by Morris Robert Werner and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tammany Hall is the oldest and the most powerful institution of a political and sociological nature in America.

Author : New York (State). Legislature. Assembly
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Total Pages : 1044 pages
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Download or read book Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York written by New York (State). Legislature. Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1044 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Meg Frisbee
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295806443
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Counterpunch written by Meg Frisbee and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boxing was popular in the American West long before Las Vegas became its epicenter. However, not everyone in the region was a fan. Counterpunch examines how the sport’s meteoric rise in popularity in the West ran concurrently with a growing backlash among Progressive Era social reformers who saw boxing as barbaric. These tensions created a morality war that pitted state officials against city leaders, boxing promoters against social reformers, and fans against religious groups. Historian Meg Frisbee focuses on several legendary heavyweight prizefights of the period and the protests they inspired to explain why western geography, economy, and culture ultimately helped the sport’s supporters defeat its detractors. A fascinating look at early American boxing, Counterpunch showcases fighters such as “Gentleman” Jim Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons, and Jack Johnson, the first African American heavyweight champ, and it provides an entertaining way to understand both the growth of the American West and the history of this popular—and controversial—sport.