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More than any other political boss of the early twentieth century,
Thomas Dennison, "the Rogue who ruled Omaha," was a master of the
devious. Unlike his contemporaries outside the Midwest, he took no
political office and was never convicted of a crime during his
thirty-year reign. He was a man who managed saloons but never cared
for alcohol; who may have incited the Omaha Race Riot of 1919 but
claimed he never harmed a soul; who stood aside while powerful men
did his bidding. His power came not from coercion or nobility but
from delegation and subterfuge. Orville D. Menard chronicles
Dennison's life in River City Empire, beginning with Dennison's
experiences in Colorado mining towns. In 1892 Dennison came to
Omaha, Nebraska, where he married and started a family while
solidifying his position as an influential political boss. Menard
explores machine politics in Omaha as well as the man behind this
machine, describing how Dennison steered elections, served the
legitimate and illegitimate business communities, and administered
justice boss-style to control crime and corruption. The microcosm
of Omaha provides an opportunity for readers to explore bossism in
a smaller environment and sheds light on the early
twentieth-century American political climate as a whole.
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