Tammany Hall lives on in feeble reforms

THE GREAT handbook of Irish machine politics is Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, the reflections of one of the veteran operators of New York politics in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The machine was then in its prime but it was regularly irritated by pesky “reformers” campaigning against cronyism and graft.

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