TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hart,Steven
TI  - American dictators: Frank Hague, Nucky Johnson, and the perfection of the urban political machine 
T2  - Rivergate regionals
SN  - 9781461951254
AV  - E747 .A447 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New Brunswick, New Jersey
PB  - Rutgers University Press
KW  - Hague, Frank,
KW  - Johnson, Nucky,
KW  - Politicians
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Political culture
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Metropolitan government
KW  - City and town life
KW  - Mayors
KW  - New Jersey
KW  - Jersey City
KW  - Atlantic City
KW  - Atlantic City (N.J.)
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Hague, Frank
KW  - 1876-1956
KW  - Jersey City (N.J.)
KW  - Johnson, Nucky
KW  - 1883-1968
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Introduction: The One Who Got Away, and the One Who Didn't --; In the Court of the Emerald King --; Lines of Power --; Boom Times --; Hard Times --; Public Works --; A Choice of Enemies --; Decline and Fall --; Epilogue: The Machines That Didn't Stop; 2; b
N2  - American Dictators is the dual biography of two of America's greatest political bosses: Frank Hague and Enoch "Nucky" Johnson. Packed with compelling information and written in an informal, sometimes humorous style, the book shows Hague and Johnson at the peak of their power and the strength of their political machines during the years of Prohibition and the Great Depression. Steven Hart compares how both men used their influence to benefit and punish the local citizenry, amass huge personal fortunes, and sometimes collaborate to trounce their enemies. Both Hague and Johnson shrewdly integrated otherwise disenfranchised groups into their machines and gave them a stake in political power. Yet each failed to adapt to changing demographics and circumstances. In American Dictators, Hart paints a balanced portrait of their accomplishments and their failures. --
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