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Part One: The Man Who Ruined New York

Behind the Bastards

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The Civil Service Is Not Democracy

In the early 19 hundreds, american cities are starting to embrace the idea that local government should be slightly different from amapia. A reformer named robert moses is one of these big reformers in termsof the way the civil service works. He thinks that people should be picked for jobs in civil service because of personal merit and their qualifications. And this doesn't go well because tammany hall quite powerful in this period.

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