Even Mark Twain had a funny couple of paragraphs on a guy from Ireland who steps off the boat in New York, is given a swig of whiskey before the day is out to vote Democrat (he specifies that party), and does so again and again and becomes a ward boss, then becomes a politician himself.
I think it’s in “The Gilded Age,” but I’d have to check.
Meet the new Boss. Same as the old Boss.
Welp. I just learned a whole bunch about Tammany Hall.
Apparently if George Clinton had just a bit more Funk, that whole Aaron Burr fiasco might never have happened.
Even Mark Twain had a funny couple of paragraphs on a guy from Ireland who steps off the boat in New York, is given a swig of whiskey before the day is out to vote Democrat (he specifies that party), and does so again and again and becomes a ward boss, then becomes a politician himself.
I think it’s in “The Gilded Age,” but I’d have to check.