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Rachel
Oct 23, 2018 rated it it was ok  ·  review of another edition
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Would. Not. End.
Oblomov
Aug 24, 2015 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Well this is a good book. Better than I thought it would be.

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
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