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Plunkitt was responding to The Shame of the Cities, a book by journalist Lincoln Steffens that exposed sweeping political corruption in U.S. cities. The ward boss’s shameless defense of ...
"Boston," wrote Lincoln Steffens, "has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure." In the light of Mayor Mansfield's dictum regarding Sean O'Casey's ...