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Doomed by Cartoon: How Cartoonist Thomas Nast and the New York Times Brought Down Boss Tweed and His Ring of Thieves (Morgan James Publishing, 2008) online. Adler, John. America's Most Influential Journalist and Premier Political Cartoonist: The Life, Times and Legacy of Thomas Nast (Harp Week Press, 2022). Barrett, Ross.
William Magear "Boss" Tweed [note 1] (April 3, 1823 – April 12, 1878) was an American politician most notable for being the political boss of Tammany Hall, the Democratic Party's political machine that played a major role in the politics of 19th-century New York City and State.
The largest and most notorious political machine was Tammany Hall in New York City, led by Democrat Boss Tweed. [86] A Group of Vultures Waiting for the Storm to "Blow Over" – "Let Us Prey," a cartoon denouncing the corruption of New York's Boss Tweed and other Tammany Hall figures, drawn in 1871 by Thomas Nast and published in Harper's Weekly
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In the 1870s, the cartoonist Thomas Nast began an aggressive campaign in the journal against the corrupt New York political leader William "Boss" Tweed. Nast turned down a $500,000 bribe to end his attack. [8] Tweed was arrested in 1873 and convicted of fraud.
An 1871 cartoon by Thomas Nast, protesting at the political power held by Irish Catholics in New York City; the "crocodiles" are Catholic bishops.. The Orange Riots took place in Manhattan, New York City, in 1870 and 1871, and they involved violent conflict between Irish Protestants who were members of the Orange Order and hence called "Orangemen", and Irish Catholics, along with the New York ...
Thomas Nast Gallery, 1870 – January 1871, editorial cartoons about Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall; Proposed Historic District: Tammany Hall, archive of a proposal to list Tammany Hall among the historic districts of the United States; Tammany Hall Links Archived December 11, 2008, at the Wayback Machine at DavidPietrusza.com
[32] [67] Nast's caricatures, meanwhile, were targeted toward Tweed's largely illiterate constituents. Tweed offered Nast $500,000 in an unsuccessful attempt to stop Nast from making more cartoons. [67] [78] The ring was disbanded in 1871 upon the arrest of Boss Tweed.