The Blind Boss & His City: Christopher Augustine Buckley and Nineteenth-century San Francisco
- ISBN-10
- 0520037979
- ISBN-13
- 9780520037977
- Category
- Political corruption
- Pages
- 347
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1979-01-01
- Publisher
- Univ of California Press
- Author
- William A. Bullough
Description
... and maintenance staffs and replaced them with loyal partisans , including Democratic club leader Frederick Raabe as head of the carpenter shop and Buckley's cousin by marriage , Charles Johnstone , as Raabe's chief assistant .
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