Bard College Bard Digital Commons Senior Projects Spring 2016 Bard Undergraduate Senior Projects Spring 2016 Mob Rule vs. Progressive Reform Ethan Moon Barness Bard College,
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[email protected]. Mob Rule vs. Progressive Reform The struggle between organized crime, machine politics and the Progressive Reform Movement for control over New York City municipal politics from 19001935 Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies Bard College by Ethan Barness 1 Acknowledgements I would like to thank my Project Advisor Myra Armstead for guiding me through the research process in my senior year at Bard. I would like to thank my mother, my father and my sister as well as all my closest friends and relatives, whose support I greatly appreciate.