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"Legal scripts and newspaper quotes form this backbone of this account of New York City governor Franklin D. Roosevelt's investigation into the corrupt city government of the high-living ""Night Mayor"" of New York City, Jimmy Walker. The crackdown, the largest ever in US history, dethroned Walker, paved the way for Roosevelt's career as president after almost ruining his chances, and brought the roaring Jazz Age to an end."

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Herbert Mitgang covered national, international, and New York cultural subjects as editorial writer and correspondent for The New York Times. He is author or editor of fifteen books in American history, law, literature, reportage, and fiction. He currently contributes to The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Nation, Newsday, and the Chicago Tribune. He lives in New York City.

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