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Summary Of Honest Graft By William L. Riordon

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William L. Riordon author of Honest Graft at the time was a newspaperman for the New York Evening Post who had interviewed ex-governor George Washington Plunkitt on politics, to where William L. Riordon began to save all the information provided by George Washington Plunkitt and would intrigue himself that the ex-governor is different from other fellow political bosses. George Washington Plunkitt in his early life was born into poverty in New York. As a child, he only received three years of schooling, but no amount of poverty and lack of schooling would stop him from becoming one of the most powerful men in New York’s politics. Later in his life he would die in 1924, but would stay as a well-known political leader and millionaire. The title of the book could refer to someone or something of equality and honesty, which does not have a negative connotation in any means. The main topic of the book “Honest Graft” is about the political talks of political bosses and newcomers. The authors thesis of the book is that what is an honest graft throughout political stories and experiences of George Washington Plunkitt. …show more content…

Providing information that in his stories he discusses the problems that he saw and examined what it took to be an honest graft and a dishonest graft. Which a honest graft is a person who follows the publics interest but as well as his/hers own personal interest. A dishonest graft is a person who steals from the treasury and takes bribes so that someone can make their own public decisions. As well as George Washington Plunkitt’s experiences of how newcomers trying to become politically intrigued in politics. His words even establish what a dishonest graft is in his

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