âGolwayâs revisionist take is a useful reminder of the unmatched ingenuity of American politics.ââWall Street Journal History casts Tammany Hall as shorthand for the worst of urban politics: graft and patronage personified by notoriously crooked characters. In his groundbreaking work Machine Made, journalist and historian Terry Golway dismantles these stereotypes, focusing on the many benefits of machine politics for marginalized immigrants. As thousands sought refuge from Irelandâs potato famine, the very question of who would be included under the protection of American democracy was at stake. Tammanyâs transactional politics were at the heart of crucial social reformsâsuch as child labor laws, workersâ compensation, and minimum wagesâ and Golway demonstrates that American political history cannot be understood without Tammanyâs profound contribution. Culminating in FDRâs New Deal, Machine Made reveals how Tammany Hall âchanged the role of governmentâfor the better to millions of disenfranchised recent American arrivalsâ (New York Observer).
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