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Saturday, June 5, 2010

All Things Boss Tweed

 Can’t get enough of Tweed?  Check out a few more Tweed posts and articles:

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  • If He Wanted a Stadium, There Would Be One, New York Times, March 6, 2005;
  • MONEY: Boss Tweed’s Bondholder Revolt: from Bloomberg Echoes, May 9, 2012.
  • BOSS TWEED: A few more cartoons, from people other than Thomas Nast, December 11, 2011;
  • The answer to today’s bad economy: Bring back BOSS TWEED!! November 30, 2011;
  • Welcome back BOSS TWEED.  November 28, 2011;
  • BOSS TWEED: Read the opening chapter.  November 7, 2011;
  • Economic Stimulus? Bring Back Boss Tweed! March 8, 2009;
  • Boss Tweed’s Birthday. April 6, 2008.
  • A rare Tweed photo – at his clubhouse in Greenwich, Connecticut, December 7, 2011.
  • Thomas Nast on Wall Street, March 1, 2009.
  • Yes, Thomas Nast invented Santa Claus, December 24, 2010.
  • DEBT CEILING crisis: Thomas Nast – Who drove the country into bankruptcy?  July 29, 2011.
  • Thomas Nast cartoons: Some appetizers.  December 5, 2011.
  • How negative can a campaign get? Thomas Nast’s attacks on Horace Greeley, 1972. August 8, 2012.
  • Racist Cartoons. February 22, 2009;

Or this cool new YouTube video Boss Tweed: the Life and Legacy of a Corrupt Leader.

 

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