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New York Law School - FALL 2010 | ||
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The Scandal of Reform: The Grand Failures of New York's Political Crusaders and the Death of Nonpartisanship (9th Edition) by Francis S. Barry Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2009 ISBN-10: 0-8135-4478-5 / 0813544785 ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-4478-6 / 9780813544786 No city in the world has seen more intense political battles between bosses and reformers than New York, which is home to America's original party machine, Tammany Hall, and its most spectacular urban corruption scandals. In these battles, reformers have always presented themselves as white knights, |