FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message New York stands at a crossroads where history hums beneath every headline. We open the archive on the city’s most contentious mayors—Boss Tweed’s machine, Fernando Wood’s secession gambit, Oakey Hall’s complicity, and Jimmy Walker’s glamour-soaked graft—to understand how power, patronage, and public appetite shaped what’s possible in City Hall. That backdrop sharpens the stakes of today’s race, where frontrunner Zoran Mandani pitch...
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FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message New York stands at a crossroads where history hums beneath every headline. We open the archive on the city’s most contentious mayors—Boss Tweed’s machine, Fernando Wood’s secession gambit, Oakey Hall’s complicity, and Jimmy Walker’s glamour-soaked graft—to understand how power, patronage, and public appetite shaped what’s possible in City Hall. That backdrop sharpens the stakes of today’s race, where frontrunner Zoran Mandani pitch...
MM#441--A House Dividing Again, pt 2---The Road to Disunion of 1860: The Fire Eaters and The Rhetoric of Ruin
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MM#441--A House Dividing Again, pt 2---The Road to Disunion of 1860: The Fire Eaters and The Rhetoric of Ruin
FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Words can move nations—and sometimes they move them off a cliff. We dive into the antebellum South to examine the Fire Eaters, the radical pro‑slavery leaders whose speeches, platforms, and media campaigns turned sectional tension into a secession movement. With William W. Freehling’s and Eric H. Walther’s research as our guide, we unpack how mainstream Democratic moderates once contained extremism, why that buffer failed, and how ...
Theory 2 Action Podcast
FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message New York stands at a crossroads where history hums beneath every headline. We open the archive on the city’s most contentious mayors—Boss Tweed’s machine, Fernando Wood’s secession gambit, Oakey Hall’s complicity, and Jimmy Walker’s glamour-soaked graft—to understand how power, patronage, and public appetite shaped what’s possible in City Hall. That backdrop sharpens the stakes of today’s race, where frontrunner Zoran Mandani pitch...
