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Tables of Contents for Boss Tweed
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Tweed's Ancestry
13
8
He enters the world
Gold's limitations--``Statesman!''
Apology and Error
21
6
An old game
His Boyhood
27
13
His schooling discussed
His fistic prowess
Leads the Cherry Hill gang
Goes to boarding school
courtship and marriage
Gangsters Enter Politics
40
5
Ballot box magic
The Old Order Dies Hard
45
6
His political credo
The Tiger
51
16
Forrest-Macready riot
Paving stones versus bullets
Loses his first contest
The merry sailor
Nominated for Alderman
Seeks a stalking horse
The Forty Thieves
67
28
Marionettes
Ringing the bell
Elected to Congress
Traction bribery
Broadway bus scandal
Defies court
``The echo of the dollars''
Moral support
A corrupt court
Journalistic rivals
Punishing the critics
Jake Sharp sees victory
Jay Gould Penniless
95
14
Gould gets religion
How Jason became Jay
Gould defrauds another
Owns railroad at twenty-one
No unnecessary violence, but
How Wood Was Named Fernando
109
13
Turns professional politician
Tammany against him
The Wets and Drys battle
Hone's ``notorious bandit''
Wood elected Mayor
Local Autonomy
122
9
Ananias can be truthful
Half-bulldog and half- leech
The mask of reform
The Amphibious Wood
131
7
Cant
The comedy is finished
Tilden, Editor
138
11
Scores prohibition
Making a martyr
Fanatics defeat Tilden
As Fernando sees himself
Playing on Prejudices
149
16
Debasing the primary
W. B. Astor whitewashes Wood
Infernal fires
Kicking them out
Armageddon
Tweed's defeat
``Suffer Little Children...''
165
40
Underfed bodies and famished minds
A slave of emotions
Cobbler decides for Greeley
A bat with a woman's face
Madame Killer
Vox populi
Madame Restell scores
A scion of Citizen Genet
The Bi-partisan Board
The outlaw police force
The Police riot
July 4, 1857
Erecting the barricade
The battle
An orderly retreat
The rout
Regularity
Political auxiliaries
Bigotry versus Bigotry
205
7
When the City Hall was sold
The new Grand Sachem
The Dominant Idea in Politics
212
17
Tweed follows Wood's example
The Grand Sachem escapes
Boor, Satyr, and Clown
Rynders threatens Tweed
The argument of freedom
A free city
Kerrigan's army
``A Sulky, Unbroken Silence''
229
6
A quack imitates society
Tweed Defeated for Sheriff
235
5
Tweed elected County Chairman
Regaining His Fortune
240
8
``A career at nisi prius''
``Better let the dirt alone''
An unjust clause
The Draft Riots Begin
248
10
The mobs
Citizens flee the city
A self-destructive mob
The gentle rain
``I Am Your Friend''
258
9
The giant barricade
A mob at play
Decimation
Tweed Made A Lawyer
267
9
Tweed, Fisk and Gould meet
Tweed changes his plan
The Man of the People
How the Bridge Was Built
276
11
The Americus Club
The value of charity
Tweed and Tiden differ
Elected State Senator
Undoing A Veto
287
9
Purification
Making an election safe
An unanswered letter
How the Ring Worked
296
37
Fisk's seraglio
Some small stealings
``First class citizens''
``The Imperialist''
Woman Suffrage
Beecher declines
Distinguished guests
``Black Friday''
Tweed sweeps the State
``Citizen'' Train
``The gentle philosopher''
Tweed Among the Elite
The Board of Audit
Tweed rebukes Tilden
The revolt
``The Boss still lives''
Hailed as a Reformer
333
18
``Triumph of Tweed Complete''
``Sheer plunder''
The Crusade begins
The dream of empire lasts
A speech
J. J. Astor to the rescue
The statue
Dana Consoles Tweed
351
19
Nordhoff's dismissal
Fisticuffs in the Assembly
A regal wedding
Forebodings of disaster
Refuses $5,000,000
Greeley awakes
The Orange riot
``Murdered by...''
``Hang Them''
370
15
Talk of lynching
Barnard has visions
Tweed's defiance
Fighting fate
The Boss at bay
O'Donovan Rossa
Tilden in the Saddle
385
8
Purging the courts
catering to prejudice
Convicted
393
26
In prison
The escape
The capture
``A little earth for charity''
The scapegoat
Mirroring the past
Fairchild dodges
``This breach of faith''
His solace
The jail door opens
A contrast
Bibliography
419
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Index
425