"Just because they're dead don't mean they're Republicans"

I’ve been reading William Kennedy's novel Roscoe:

If you’re not familiar with Kennedy, most of his novels take place in Irish-Catholic Albany during the '30s & '40s. His characters range from rough around the edges, like pool shark Billy Phelan in Billy Phelan’s Greatest Game & Billy's wayward old man Francis in Ironweed, to downright predatory, like celebrity gangster Legs Diamond in Legs & Roscoe's merrily crooked politicians ...

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