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This biography of Mayor Curley of Boston was recommended as a model for understanding how a criminal leader could gain support by representing a group that felt beaten down by a hostile state, encouraging listeners to overlook his stealing.
And so what he's always able to say to the Irish Catholics is, the Yankees want to put you in prison as they did. They want to stop you from voting as they did. And so I represent you and you have to...
— Episode: David Frum: The Kraken Is Never Coming
Episode: David Frum: The Kraken Is Never Coming
This biography of Mayor Curley of Boston was recommended as a model for understanding how a criminal leader could gain support by representing a group that felt beaten down by a hostile state, encouraging listeners to overlook his stealing.
And so what he's always able to say to the Irish Catholics is, the Yankees want to put you in prison as they did. They want to stop you from voting as they did. And so I represent you and you have to overlook my stealing.
And there's a book that's worth, I'm going to recommend to people, which is a biography of Mayor Curley of Boston called The Rascal King.