The Best of Families, No. 3: The Election--Patronage or Paradise
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Teddy Wheeler, heir to the Wheeler fortune, supports political novice Teddy Roosevelt in the mayoral election of 1886, but machine politics triumph. Meanwhile, John Patrick Rafferty has tied his fortune to Phil Murphy, a Tammany ward boss, and James Lathrop discovers that political favoritism has cost him a construction contract. After the Tammany candidate's victory, Murphy discards John Patrick as unsuitable for political work.
More in Best of Families Series
- The Best of Families, No. 1: Generations 1977
- The Best of Families, No. 2: The Bridge 1977
- The Best of Families, No. 3: The Election--Patronage or Paradise 1977
- The Best of Families, No. 4: Ambition 1977
- The Best of Families, No. 5: Chill to the Bones 1977
- The Best of Families, No. 6: The Great Trolley Battle 1977
- The Best of Families, No. 7: New Times 1977
- The Best of Families, No. 8: January 17, 1977 1977
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