Plunkitt Of Tammany Hall

Three men in suits whispering and smiling over a table with stacks of money, documents, and drinks

My copy cost all of one dollar and twenty-five cents. I bought it in the early 1970's for a political science course I was taking at Northeastern University. It's a slender little paperback, only 98 pages in length. Published in 1905, it was George Washington Plunkitt's practical guide to how politics worked in New York …