Boss Tweed Audiobook : The Images and a Five Minute Sample

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 -

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

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