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...Clearly, Flynn regards as immoral this candidate who pocketed money intended to bribe voters. The candidate sinned against organizational "loyalty." This preoccupation with the law of the pack, and a resultant spinning of endless judgments on "right" and "wrong" deals, wraps the practical politician in unreality...
...Tear in the Eye. Flynn believes that graftless government is good politics (at least in The Bronx). Politicians of Flynn's kind, knowing that they are more honest than they have to be, are disappointed when the public withholds full acclaim from politicians who take their main pay in power rather than in boodle...
...consciousness of their own unhonored self-denial, out of their peculiar "loyalty," comes the sentimentality which is a distinguishing mark of professional politicians. Flynn, in telling of his hero, Charles F. Murphy of Tammany Hall, recalls with typical sentimentality a typical political maneuver...
Attention to Details. Not the least important element in this story of how a judge was appointed is the fact that Murphy and Flynn were genuinely worried over the choice-whereas the majority of their fellow citizens were doubtless unaware that the vacancy even existed. Flynn's book, a record of such attention to detail, demonstrates again that eternal vigilance is the price of bossism. Ed Flynn "took care" of plain people in The Bronx so well that he became one of Roosevelt's closest political advisers and hobnobbed with history on missions to Moscow, Yalta...
...Boss is a useful book if only because it explains how and why Flynn and his kind get where they are. They care enough about power to work like beavers for it, and (as Sentimental Tommy reminded Mr. Pym) where the heart is there also the treasure lies...