William M. Tweed

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This research paper traces the rise and fall of William Marcy (Boss) Tweed, who, as the political boss of the Tweed Ring and Tammany Hall, controlled the affairs of the city of New York and much else in the state of New York during the mid-1860s and until late 1871, examines his role in the context of his times and assesses his performance as a political leader. Boss Tweed had the personal qualities and political skills needed to establish and rule for a decade a highly personalized system of political corruption and monolithic machine politics which was itself the product of the ethos and circumstances of urban life and politics in America during its Gilded Age.

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"WILLIAM M. TWEED (1823-1878)
This research paper traces the rise and fall of William Marcy (Boss) Tweed, who, as the political boss of the Tweed Ring and Tammany Hall, controlled the affairs of the city of New York and much else in the state of New York during the mid-1860s and until late 1871, examines his role in the context of his times and assesses his performance as a political leader. Boss Tweed had the personal qualities and political skills needed to establish and rule for a decade a highly personalized system of political corruption and monolithic machine politics which was itself the product of the ethos and circumstances of urban life and politics in America during its Gilded Age. An unscrupulous individual, driven largely by his extraordinary greed and lust for power, Tweed planted the seeds of his own destruction by ..."

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