Publisher's Synopsis
The greatest political novel written in years. A stirring story of a "boss" and others. Dashing and eventful as a tale of knight errantry, it is so thoroughly modern as to utilize in its machinery the operation of a metropolitan department store, the stealing of a Railway Franchise, and the rise to power of a Tammany Hall leader. Patrick Maguire, big, brawny, and smooth of tongue, early decides that there is a good thing for him in the big city, and he starts after it. How he succeeds-becoming the big "Boss" by methods that are known to be practical and practiced by the initiated-is Mr. Barr's theme. Another "live issue" treated by Mr. Barr is that of "Christian Science." The work has a climax whose strength has rarely been equalled in modern fiction.
