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The narrator is an ex journalist, now on the staff as a problem solver for Willie Stark the Governor of Louisiana aka "The Boss", who is planning a run on the federal Senate. The Boss is a politician who started out as a moral and well intentioned man, but who has been shaped into a player of political games, a believer in the inherent corruption of human nature, a man who is willing to do what is required to achieve what he views as th ...more
The narrator is an ex journalist, now on the staff as a problem solver for Willie Stark the Governor of Louisiana aka "The Boss", who is planning a run on the federal Senate. The Boss is a politician who started out as a moral and well intentioned man, but who has been shaped into a player of political games, a believer in the inherent corruption of human nature, a man who is willing to do what is required to achieve what he views as th ...more

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