About the Author

Louis Eisenstein, a Navy (World War I) veteran, worked for the post office, the IRS, the New York City Department of Finance, and the New York State Senate. He was a Tammany Hall precinct captain from the 1920s through the 1950s. Elliot Rosenberg was a history high school teacher in New York City for thirty years. He also worked as a journalist for the New York Journal-American and the New York Post.

Reviews

"This is the book that political science professors and editorial writers should read before they write their learned sermons about the evils of Tammany Hall. The authors write with love and sadness about 'contracts,' pols on the take, pouring water from rooftops onto Socialist candidates, and spitting in the face of Jimmy Walker because Irish cops were pushing around Jewish storekeepers. This is the way New York looked from a red brick clubhouse on East Broadway."-Richard Reeves, New York Times "Eisenstein is of the old school of Democratic politics, a fieldworker, having put in more than fifty years plowing up the East Side voters in the John Ahearn district for Tammany candidates. Eisenstein writes of things known only to those who worked at the grass roots."-Michael O'Brien, New York Daily News "Filled with the color, drama and language of every day politics, A Stripe of Tammany's Tiger is a refreshingly lively and direct account of New York City Clubhouse politics from the 1900's through the 1960's. This very human and personal memoir of a politician who knew or worked directly with such men as Edward J. Ahearn, John F. Ahearn, Herbert H. Lehman, William O'Dwyer, Newbold Morris, Vincent R. Impellitteri, Carmine De Sapio, W. Averell Harriman, Robert F. Wagner Senior and Junior, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John Lindsay, and Abraham Beame among others, is not only entertaining reading, but a most valuable reference and study for anyone directly involved in politics today or anyone studying the political process in American society."-Herbert Druks, State University of New York