num_pages: 227
description: This is a book about politics, not as it is taught to children in schools or to adults who believe what they read in the papers, but about politics as the manufacturing of candidates, the staging of elections, the assumption of power and the accumulation of wealth by the puppet masters.
language: English
title: The Last of the Big-Time Bosses: The Life and Times of Carmine de Sapio and the Rise and Fall of Tammany Hall
titlecomplete: The Last of the Big-Time Bosses: The Life and Times of Carmine de Sapio and the Rise and Fall of Tammany Hall
characters: Carmine DeSapio
ratings_count: 6
publisher: Stein and Day