A Study in Boss Politics: William Lorimer of ChicagoFocuses on the clash between elite municipal reformers (generally native-American Protestants) and machine politicians with Irish Catholic, Bohemian, and Russian Jewish backgrounds. |
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The Making of a Political Boss | 3 |
Victory through Organization | 24 |
The Election of 1896 | 48 |
Copyright | |
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