{"product_id":"bosses-machines-and-urban-voters-9781421430324","title":"Bosses Machines and Urban Voters","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1986. Political machines, and the bosses who ran them, are largely a relic of the nineteenth century. A prominent feature in nineteenth-century urban politics, political machines mobilized urban voters by providing services in exchange for voters' support of a party or candidate. Allswang examines four machines and five urban bosses over the course of a century. He argues that efforts to extract a meaningful general theory from the American experience of political machines are difficult given the particularity of each city's history. A city's composition largely determined the character of its political machines. Furthermore, while political machines are often regarded as nondemocratic and corrupt, Allswang discusses the strengths of the urban machine approachchief among those being its ability to organize voters around specific issues.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAllswang's study of political machines has been revised and updated to reflect developments in Chicago, Los Angeles, Cleveland, and other cities. Reviewers called it 'modest in size but meaty in content,' and said that although it is 'aimed at generalists, it will prove instructive to specialists as well.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface to the 1986 Edition\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Of City Bosses and College Graduates\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. William Marcy Tweed: The First Boss\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Charles Francis Murphy: The Enduring Boss\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. Big Bill Thompson and Tony Cermak: The Rival Bosses\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. Richard J. Daley: The Last Boss?\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. Black Cities, White Machines\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: Of Bosses and Bossing\u003cbr\u003eFor Further Reading\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408129499479,"sku":"9781421430324","price":25.17,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421430324.jpg?v=1730501693","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/bosses-machines-and-urban-voters-9781421430324","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}