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A 6 page paper which examines
“Plunkitt of Tammany Hall” and discusses how George Washington Plunkitt played with
the stereotype of the corrupt urban politician. Bibliography lists 5 additional sources.
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6 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JR7_RAplunk.rtf
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political corruption as the field of politics seemed to change dramatically. The politics of the past were no longer working, it would seem, and reformation was eminent. One powerful work
which helps us to understand this time period is "Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: A Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics, Delivered by Ex-senator George Washington Plunkitt, the
Tammany Philosopher, from His Rostrum-the New York County Court House Bootblack Stand," a work recorded by William L. Riordon. While this work touches on many political realities of the time,
one of the most important aspects is that which discusses corruption in the changing environment. In the following paper we examine how George Washington Plunkitt, who was a national symbol
of New Yorks urban politics, was a man who played on the stereotype of the corrupt urban politician, while he himself was corrupt and nurturing future corruption. Plunkitt and
Corruption In many ways Plunkitt was surely a man unto himself. He was a power as well as a voice. Interestingly enough, however, "Plunkitt was a leader of Tammany Hall
and was, by the standards of our times and his, undeniably corrupt. As his Boswell, newspaperman William Riordon, noted: In 1870 through a strange combination of circumstances, he held the
places of Assemblyman, Alderman, Police Magistrate and County Supervisor and drew three salaries at once -- a record unexampled in New York politics" (Smith, 1994; wwhomea.htm). But, at the
same time his form of corruption seemed to help people out as well, a form of corruption that seems to play against the stereotypical form of urban corruption where all
politicians were working together and away from the common individual. Smith (1994) argues that "Plunkitt was not only corrupt but a hardworking, perceptive and appealing politician who took care of
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