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Sure, the book’s central character, Willie Stark, has come to signify chicanery, political bossdom and populism run amok.

Re-elected to a third term, Wagner vowed to oust Buckley both from the House seat and his Bronx bossdom.

In 1926, Brennan "bet his bossdom against a seat in the U. S. Senate that Illinois is sick of Prohibition"�and lost to Senator-eject Frank L. Smith.

In a century of highly successful Republican bossdom, just two Democrats had tiptoed into the Statehouse.

The bossdom of Indiana's Thomas Taggart is of an older vintage.