Richard Kreitner is special assistant to the publisher of The Nation and editor of its “Back Issues” blog.
Richard Kreitner
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Tammany Kindness
It is common for revisionist historians to pose themselves as prosecutors of sinful politicians, bigoted authors, deranged empires. Rarer are those like Terry Golway, who in Machine Made: Tammany Hall and the Creation of Modern American Politics adopts the guise of a slick-haired criminal defense lawyer requesting a retrial for his client on the grounds […]
