Boss Tweed Thomas Nast Cartoon

September 1868 nast cartoon this is a white man s government.

Boss tweed thomas nast cartoon. The tammany ring run by a man named william boss tweed bribed officials rigged elections and stole money from city coffers. The old new york county courthouse known as the tweed courthouse got its nickname from boss tweed joe marino new york daily news in a series of cartoons for harper s weekly nast helped. The first american master of the political cartoon an illustrator named thomas nast used his work to shed light on the corruption that ran rampant in tammany hall in new york city. The american river ganges a cartoon by thomas nast showing bishops attacking public schools with connivance of boss tweed.

The cartoonist thomas nast became a legend by drawing caricatures in harper s weekly that helped to bring down corrupt politician boss tweed. Thomas nast is considered the father of modern political cartoons and his satirical drawings are often credited with bringing down boss tweed the notoriously corrupt leader of the new york city political machine in the 1870s. Excerpt from the 1999 documentary film on new york by ric burns.