By Nicholas Lehr The three main characters in this book — Tammany boss Carmine De Sapio, Congressman Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., and Cardinal Francis Spellman — represent three “institutions” within the post-war Democratic Party: Tammany Hall (urban, patronage-based, machine politics), the Roosevelts (liberalism), and the Catholic Church (conservative elements within the party, oriented toward anti-unionism, … Continue reading Empires Will Fall