Boss Tweed
The title link is to an interview with author Kenneth Ackerman by Paul Grondahl, first published May 8, 2005, in the www.timesunion.com, which serves the Albany, New York, region. The interview begins:
Long before he decided to write a biography of Boss Tweed, Kenneth Ackerman observed firsthand a pretty fair approximation of Tweedisms while growing up amid one of the longest-running Democratic machines in America.
"It was a political education in itself seeing how things worked in Albany," said Ackerman, 53, who lived on Hollywood Avenue, attended nearby School 19 and graduated from Albany High School in 1969. He marveled at the machinations of Democratic boss Dan O'Connell and his urbane alter ego, Mayor Erastus Corning 2nd.
Ackerman is the product of a faithful Democratic household in an era when loyalty was rewarded. His father earned a political appointment as a real estate lawyer in the state Attorney General's office. Ackerman followed suit in the nation's capital as an attorney appointee within the Agriculture Department during the Clinton administration...
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