Richard J. Daly had a similar legacy in the City of Chicago. He tore down old ethnic neighborhoods to build expressways, projects, and universities. His secret weapon was mastery of the Chicago political machine (based not surprisingly on the Irish Catholic Church hierarchy). A lot of Daly's Chicago is gone (nearly all the projects have been torn down) but his legacy lives on in many ways.
I don't know much about Daly, but that does sound very similar. I wonder if understanding of political machines is only something that happens in retrospect.
Richard J. Daly had a similar legacy in the City of Chicago. He tore down old ethnic neighborhoods to build expressways, projects, and universities. His secret weapon was mastery of the Chicago political machine (based not surprisingly on the Irish Catholic Church hierarchy). A lot of Daly's Chicago is gone (nearly all the projects have been torn down) but his legacy lives on in many ways.
I don't know much about Daly, but that does sound very similar. I wonder if understanding of political machines is only something that happens in retrospect.