The Pendergast Machine by Lyle Wesley Dorsett
The Pendergast Machine

Lyle Wesley Dorsett

The Pendergast Machine

Lyle Wesley Dorsett

163 pages first pub 1968 (editions)

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From the 1890's to 1939 Jim Pendergast and his younger brother Tom built and ran the notorious political machine of Kansas City. Amid struggle, scandal, and gangsterism, the Pendergast "Goat" party manufactured judges, police, govenors, and congre...

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