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Chapter III: Foreword: TO THE NEW EDITION (1917) xiii

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CHAPTER I

RESISTANCE TO ARISTOCRACY--1789-1798 1

CHAPTER II

AARON BURR AT THE HELM--1798-1802 11

CHAPTER III

TAMMANY QUARRELS WITH DE WITT CLINTON--1802-1809 17

CHAPTER IV

SLOW RECOVERY FROM DISASTER--1809-1815 29

CHAPTER V

TAMMANY IN ABSOLUTE CONTROL--1815-1817 37

CHAPTER VI

CLINTON MAINTAINS HIS SUPREMACY--1817-1820 47

CHAPTER VII

THE SUFFRAGE CONTEST--1820-1822 56

CHAPTER VIII

STRUGGLES OF THE PRESIDENTIAL FACTIONS--1822-1825 60

CHAPTER IX

THE JACKSON ELEMENT VICTORIOUS--1825-1828 69

CHAPTER X

THE WORKINGMEN’S PARTY--1829-1830 77

CHAPTER XI

TAMMANY AND THE BANK CONTEST--1831-1834 85

CHAPTER XII

THE EQUAL RIGHTS PARTY--1834-1837 94

CHAPTER XIII

TAMMANY “PURIFIED”--1837-1838 112

CHAPTER XIV

WHIG FAILURE RESTORES TAMMANY TO POWER--1838-1840 117

CHAPTER XV

RISE AND PROGRESS OF THE “GANGS”--1840-1846 128

CHAPTER XVI

“BARNBURNERS” AND “HUNKERS”--1846-1850 140

CHAPTER XVII

DEFEAT AND VICTORY--1850-1852 150

CHAPTER XVIII

“HARDSHELLS” AND “SOFTSHELLS”--1852-1858 161

CHAPTER XIX

A CHAPTER OF DISCLOSURES--1853-1854 167

CHAPTER XX

FERNANDO WOOD’S FIRST ADMINISTRATION--1854-1856 174

CHAPTER XXI

WOOD’S SECOND ADMINISTRATION--1856-1859 181

CHAPTER XXII

THE CIVIL WAR AND AFTER--1859-1867 194

CHAPTER XXIII

THE TWEED “RING”--1867-1870 211

CHAPTER XXIV

TWEED IN HIS GLORY--1870-1871 225

CHAPTER XXV

COLLAPSE AND DISPERSION OF THE “RING”--1871-1872 237

CHAPTER XXVI

TAMMANY RISES FROM THE ASHES--1872-1874 250

CHAPTER XXVII

THE DICTATORSHIP OF JOHN KELLY--1874-1886 258

CHAPTER XXVIII

THE DICTATORSHIP OF RICHARD CROKER--1886-1897 267

CHAPTER XXIX

THE DICTATORSHIP OF RICHARD CROKER (_Concluded_)--1897-1901 284

CHAPTER XXX

TAMMANY UNDER ABSENTEE DIRECTION--1901-1902 290

CHAPTER XXXI

CHARLES F. MURPHY’S AUTOCRACY--1902-1903 299

CHAPTER XXXII

THE SWAY OF BRIBERY AND “HONEST GRAFT”--1903-1905 307

CHAPTER XXXIII

TAMMANY’S CONTROL UNDER LEADER MURPHY--1906-1909 324

CHAPTER XXXIV

ANOTHER ERA OF LEGISLATIVE CORRUPTION--1909-1911 342

CHAPTER XXXV

“CHIEF” MURPHY’S LEADERSHIP--FURTHER DETAILS 1912-1913 356

CHAPTER XXXVI

GOVERNOR SULZER’S IMPEACHMENT AND TAMMANY’S DEFEAT--1913-1914 375

CHAPTER XXXVII

TAMMANY’S PRESENT STATUS--1914-1917 392

HISTORY OF TAMMANY HALL

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