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Welcome to the Machine: ‘Boss Tweed’
In Chicago, there’s a little joke that sums up our system of public corruption nicely. It goes something like this: A government official needed to construct a new public facility, so he started looking into contractors around the country to … Continue reading
Posted in Biography, Non-Fiction
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Boss Tweed, corruption, Democrats, goverment, Kenneth Ackerman, machine politics, New York, Tammany Hall, Thomas Nast
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