"Just Call Me Billy!" - Politics in 1900s Lexington, Kentucky October 19, 2006

Just in case we think this election season is unusual we look back a century to the days when Lexington politics and the name William Frederick Klair were indistinguishable. In his book Bossism and Reform in a South City, Murray State Professor Duane Bolin tells of what George Washington Plunkitt of Tammany Hall referred to as "honest graft" and how Klair applied lessons of organization, innovation, manipulation, power, and control from the machine age to bring together diverse groups of Lexingtonians and Kentuckians as supporters of a powerful political machine.

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