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b-boy bouiebaisse@jbouie.bsky.social |
give me a series of docs on all the great american political machines. the albany regency. tammany. the pendergast machine. the daley machine. the byrd organization.
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Rachel 🍉 Wilson
@11timezones.bsky.social
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Well, we got one: The Wire. Just Baltimore, but still.
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Martin Sorensen
@amartinsorensen.bsky.social
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For Chicago I can recommend the book Boss: Richard J Daley of Chicago by Mike Royko
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Cait
@caitesq.bsky.social
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You’re reminding me that I want to watch Show Me a Hero
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Christina Wolbrecht
@cwolbrecht.bsky.social
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I don’t understand how these don’t exist. They have EVERYTHING.
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J Jaye 🇺🇸🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇺🇦🇵🇸
@jjayehooray.bsky.social
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The Robert “Byrd Organization”? I’m pretty steeped in WV politics but I’ve never heard of that
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freakanatcha.bsky.social
@freakanatcha.bsky.social
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I'll donate enough to get a shipping container of PBS tote bags if we can get a doc on Boss Hogg
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freakanatcha.bsky.social
@freakanatcha.bsky.social
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One episode could be about the US presidents who won thanks to the machines (Truman, JFK for starters) and how history might have changed if not for the machines
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Redshift
@redshift42.bsky.social
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If people have when heard of it, most don't realize how recent Byrd Machine was! I know people who were Kennedy delegates in 68, with stories of how the Byrd Machine had state troopers trying to arrest them on their way to the state Democratic Convention so they couldn't get there!
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Error Crater (Them, like the giant ant)
@errorcrater.bsky.social
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i want to see a historical drama about "fightin' bob" la follette and the progressive party
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Aviendha69 - ⊃∪∩⪽
@aviendha69.bsky.social
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O. Stone made a great doc series on US poli.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKDf...
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Virginia Bauman 🏳️⚧️🌈
@va.coach
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But no we get pop tart movies. 🗑️
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Daniel Schlozman
@daschloz.bsky.social
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This is good on Daley, until the big series arrives: mediaburn.org/video/daley-...
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Daniel Schlozman
@daschloz.bsky.social
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The psychodramas of Erastus Corning and Dan O'Connell! Boss Crump! "Vote often and early for James Michael Curley!" And now that line about the aged Curley, seeing an unfamiliar sign. "Who is this fellow, Pizza?" When told, he replied "I figured we might get a contribution out of him."
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Doty
@corbindoty.bsky.social
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A film version of the book "Dirty Doc Ames: the scourge of Minneapolis" would be awesome.
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Andrew S.
@shoutingboy.bsky.social
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What’d you think of BOARDWALK EMPIRE? It’s the biggest show I can think of about machine politics. I don’t know enough of the real history to judge its accuracy.
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Martin Schneider
@wovenstrap.bsky.social
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Pendergast Machine opened for Fugazi at the Cat's Cradle in '94, killer show
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Sandy B.
@nebulousmenace.bsky.social
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Well, shit, would you accept a book recommendation or is that not the point? I liked this pretty well: www.goodreads.com/book/show/38...
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Chris Marcil
@chrismarcil.bsky.social
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Do it before William Kennedy dies! (Also, Kirsten Gillibrand's grandma was the consigliere of the Albany machine.)
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thicc offerman
@thiccofferman.bsky.social
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The Jenkins foofaraw
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Armored Gigan VI: Flamer of Rubicon
@gigansprogress.bsky.social
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I also wish they had done a little more with the Draft Riots
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That’s Too Much, Colby
@thatstoomuchcolby.bsky.social
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Have you gone through all the Daley machine books? I’ve got a mini wing in my library.
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Matthew Johnson
@seasouthern.bsky.social
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Hell, the Reid Machine if you wanna get modern. You know there are some juicy mafia and/or union characters and storylines there.
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Rob Tomshany
@robtomshany.bsky.social
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Just curious, have you seen The Great McGinty? It’s one of “classic Hollywood”’s few really good (if a bit cartoonish) portrayals of a political machine in action. I’d love to hear your take on it!
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Linda Holmes
@lindaholmes.bsky.social
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A series like that now would be a great way to look at the way the relationships between these political machines and huge corporations have changed, if they have.
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John Kinsella
@jrkinsella.bsky.social
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The HBO Truman movie with Gary Sinise has some good Pendergast stuff in the beginning. A Byrd biopic or series would be interesting.
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Pickle Tiedrich
@prettyliltakemachine.is-extremely.gay
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God I would love some kind of Better Call Saul-esque fauxumentary on the Byrde crime family from Ozark
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BlueGrin
@bluegrin.bsky.social
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Underappreciated, but Ed Norton rolling the Robert Moses storyline into Motherless Brooklyn was inspired.
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so what, big deal
@ddrenle.bsky.social
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the other thing about Tammany, in particular, is that they were often very very funny
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Courtney Shannon
@cshannonpdx.bsky.social
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Multiple branches of my family tree were involved in NY-NJ politics/commerce/religious movements from 1820-1940 and there’s so much fascinating stuff. Jersey City during the crash of the Know Nothings and the rise of the Hague Era alone is worth a prestige TV show.
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Matt Clawson
@mattclawson.bsky.social
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After getting into the power broker, I tried to find historical documentaries on YouTube about this period and it was surprisingly hard!!!
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Patricia A. McGowan
@teacherspeaks52.bsky.social
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It seems that prior to the election of 2016 the political machines were keeping somewhat of a low profile ... not any more.
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lowtax speedrun enjoyer
@rickywlmsbong.bsky.social
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i would watch the hell out of this
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👇🏽 I've got the nafety for safety 👆🏽 (she/they)
@bibliotech.cc
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Inject this right into my eyeballs please
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Bastiat
@bastiatt.bsky.social
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As a Baltimore boy, I’d humbly ask for a side-trek story on Nancy Pelosi’s father: Thomas D’Alasandro, Jr.
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@ljevans.bsky.social
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I would absolutely kill to see a Ken Burns series on a city that wasn't New York. Cripes, Stefan Lorant already did all the legwork/graphics for Pittsburgh - why hasn't anyone even considered this?
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Alex Bean
@abeanchi.bsky.social
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The PBS documentary about New York's history is the closest I have found to this. Also badly want to read the history of Tammany titled "Machine Made."
youtu.be/AHYa_IciNgA?...
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Charm City Slicker (57-35)
@sprawlhater.bsky.social
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I would like one about the Gorman–Rasin organization
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Carmin
@carmintheb.bsky.social
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I have been waiting for an Everleigh Sisters and Mayor Thompson series ever since reading Sin in the Second City.
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GollyZilla
@gollyzilla.bsky.social
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In imagining it in my mind’s eye and you’re the narrator
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Estes Kefauver for President
@kefauver4prez.bsky.social
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I would 100% watch all of these docs! Especially since the Kefauver Committee's organized crime hearings would surely come up at some point:
estes-kefauver.com/2024/01/05/f...
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Pappyland
@pappyland.bsky.social
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Is there even a good documentary on Huey Long the man?
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Matthew Dessem
@matthewdessem.bsky.social
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Don’t forget the raw charisma of Boss Crump!
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Jacob Kramer-Duffield
@jaykaydee.bsky.social
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Jess. Unruh.
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Zeroisanumber
@zeroisanumber.bsky.social
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I would watch the hell out of a documentary about how Harry Reid led a bunch of normcore Mormons to ruthlessly muscle the Mafia out of Vegas.
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@grooveholmes.bsky.social
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Imagine you liked the scenes in Lincoln where his operatives were whipping up 13A votes with a number of patronage appointments, etc.
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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One of my former students Richard Anderson is turning a great dissertation on the Daley machine into his first book. It’s all about the nitty gritty work
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Donna Jean
@sparkleskydonna.bsky.social
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Huey P Long had a Louisiana machine. Ended with an assassin’s bullet. Life story made into a movie based on Robert Penn Warren’s book, All the King’s Men.
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Althea
@altheasus.bsky.social
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I love reading KC histories and guessing when Pendergast comes in. Same with any NYC history and Tammany.
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Anthony Damiani
@adamiani.bsky.social
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Hm…. How much do you think it would cost to license ‘Welcome to the Machine’ for the opening credits?
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RainShine
@shanerhyne.bsky.social
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Crump! Crump! Crump!
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S knows that p
@sknowsthatp.bsky.social
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I would watch the shit out of these
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[TLB] Klaus
@tlbklaus.bsky.social
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...CT had one, though not in the big boys' class.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mo...
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Jennifer Petitt
@jenniferpetitt.bsky.social
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YES!!!
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Rumpole the Brief
@rumpole-brief.bsky.social
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You're saying stop with the incessant 'documrntaries' on WWII and Civil War leaders? Or 'Titans' who 'built' America? But...how!?
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Potato Gun Kelly
@potatogunkelly.bsky.social
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The references to Tammany in the 99pi read through of The Power Broker has me dying to learn more too
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Jacob Simpson (author)
@jacobsimpson.bsky.social
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William Donald Schaefer, the Stonewall Club Democrats and the remaking of Baltimore city, for better and worse. Would watch hours on that.
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Twitter's Bobby Big Wheel
@kleinman.bsky.social
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Crump and Loeb in Memphis
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Shirty
@whogivesashirt.bsky.social
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This could stand to be a series like American Crime Story. Or spinoff series like CSI!
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Julia S.
@booktweeting.bsky.social
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Curley! Honey Fitz!
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Patrick
@sharkey.fun
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Your made up some of these things
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Michael
@scottgoblue314.bsky.social
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Willie Brown's America would rip but we're still living out act three st the moment
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Dr. M.A. Davis
@mikedavis.bsky.social
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Wallace Shawn would have been a great Van Buren ten or twenty years ago.
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Brendan O'Toole
@brendanotoole.bsky.social
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Well-styled biopic of Martin Lomasney now please
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Beadle, Society for the New Art
@saraht74.bsky.social
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BTW, have you ever been to Tammany Hall, which still stands? Currently a Petco!
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Banacek 🇵🇱
@banacek.bsky.social
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I'm still waiting for the Kwame Kilpatrick documentary.
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madwoman in the gadek
@emilygadabout.bsky.social
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It’s audio obviously but the This American Life episode on Harold Washington breaking the Daley machine is magnificent www.thisamericanlife.org/84/harold
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