William 'Boss' Tweed was in such thorough control in New York that he made money off of the report the committee printed after investigating him.
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Zum Autor"He was a product of a culture where it was generally counterproductive to hold grudges."
"He understood the code of his social class enough to affect an air of indifference about life."
"Proving himself to himself was no small matter."
"Time after time during the next six months, he would put me together again."
"Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. Ralph Waldo Emerson."