San Antonio College Library

"Among the monumental characters in the history of American politics, few are more complex and fascinating than Boss Tweed; and few working historians could record his dramatic rise and fall more vividly than Kenneth D. Ackerman, who in his two previous books has established himself as an investigative historian of the first order. His new work, Boss Tweed, is the first biography in almost thirty years of the legendary figure who bribed the state...