'What are You Laughing at? To the Victor Belong the Spoils' (from Harper's Weekly), November 25, 1871, Wood engraving, sheet: 15 3/8 x 10 9/16 in. (39 x 26.9 cm), Prints, Thomas Nast (American (born Germany), Landau 1840–1902 Guayaquil), New York’s famously corrupt power broker William M. Tweed is portrayed as a defeated Roman soldier in an image issued just after the election that broke his hold on power. As commissioner of public works, 'Boss Tweed' had allied himself with cronies collectively known as Tammany Hall after their political headquarters
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