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Boss Platt and His New York Machine: A Study of the Political Leadership of Thomas C. Platt, Theodore Roosevelt, and Others
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Boss Platt and His New York Machine: A Study of the Political Leadership of Thomas C. Platt, Theodore Roosevelt, and Others

by Harold F. Gosnell. 370 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Harold F. Gosnell

Publisher:

   University of Chicago Press

Place of Publication:

  Chicago  

Publication Year:

  1924
Subjects:   Roosevelt, Theodore,--1858-1919, Platt, Thomas Collier,--1833-1910, New York (State)--Politics and government--1865-
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