Audiobooks are heard, not seen, but the story of Boss Tweed is immersed in visual arts: newspaper cartoons, headlines, and charts. If you've downloaded the audiobook version, read by the excellent Scott Ellis, here are all the images from the story, laid out by chapter, either to follow while you listen or to enjoy later. If you haven't, here's a quick five-minute sample.
First, click here to hear a five-minute sample of the audiobook.
Now for the images-
Chapter 1: Alone
Harper's Weekly, January 26, 1878
Chapter 2: Riots
New York Governor Horatio Seymour
Harper's Weekly, September 3, 1864
Thomas Nast
Chapter 3: Ballots
Samuel J. Tilden
Tammany Hall, on 14th Street facing Union Square, 1870s.
Harper's Weekly, October 10, 1868
Chapter 4: Spoils
Peter B. Sweeny Richard Connolly A. Oakey Hall
Chapter 5: Park Row
Evening Telegram, January 6, 1871
Chapter 6: Whitewash
Jimmy O'Brien
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Harpers Weekly, January 14, 1871
Chapter 8: I Pledge Myself to Persevere
Harper's Weekly, April 16, 1870
Harpers Weekly, June 10, 1871
Chapter 9: The Wedding
William Tweed, Jr.
Chapter 10: July
Evening Telegraph, August 18, 1871
Harper's Weekly, July 29, 1871
Chapter 11: Disclosure
New-York Times, July 22, 1871
Harper's Weekly, August 19, 1871
Chapter 12: Panic
Harper's Weekly, October 7, 1871.
Harper's Weekly, July 22, 1871
Harper's Weekly, September 30, 1871
Harpers Weekly, August 19, 1871
Chapter 13: Tilden
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Frank Leslie's Illustrated, October 7, 1871
Chapter 15: Numbers
New-York Times, October 26, 1871
Chapter 17: Marked
Harper's Weekly, October 21, 1871
Harper's Weekly, November 11, 1871.
Cartoon by R. Hoyt, 1871
Chapter 18: Law
Harper's Weekly, December 18, 1875
Harper's Weekly, January 4, 1873
Chapter 20: Escape
Harper's Weekly, July 1, 1876
Chapter 23: Legacy
Harper's Weekly, October 21, 1871
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