As the state of New York enters a new era of reform, energetic and popular figures such as Teddy Roosevelt and Charles Evan Hughes seize the reins of power. Yet, less scrupulous men still wait in the shadows, hoping for an opportunity to turn back the clock and line their own pockets- along with those of their benefactors.

A chronicle of the political wars waged in the state of New York, and a history of the grandiloquent mansion in which the winners lived during the Gilded Age and the following Progressive Era, 1875 - 1913. The first of two installments.

The final installment of our Chicanery, 1960 series. Vice President Nixon certifies the controversial vote tally after months of fraud allegations. JFK is inaugurated, and the United States enters a new, strange era.

Southern “Dixiecrats” plot a faithless coup as certification of the 1960 U.S. presidential election approaches. At the same time, in the newly confirmed state of Hawaii, confusion complicates the final tally.

Back in Chicago, Sam Giancana’s murky career in organized crime is put under a microscope, as is his potential connection to Kennedy’s electoral victory in November, 1960.

Prior to his electoral victory in the fall, JFK out-maneuvers Senator Lyndon Johnson for the Democratic nomination in June 1960. Within Johnson’s past, questions are raised about the ethics of the Texas Democratic Party.

In the decades of American history leading up to the election of 1960, Richard J. Daley fights his way up from the working-class neighborhood of Bridgeport, Chicago to the mayor’s office. Meanwhile, the Republicans start digging for any sign of voter fraud in Illinois following Nixon’s narrow defeat.

At the start of the 1960s, Richard Nixon lost a presidential election to John F. Kennedy. Not told as often, and rarely in any significant detail is the story of what happened immediately after. Exhausted from the grueling campaign, the candidates took a back seat while their party leaders battled it out on the national stage. Allegations of fraud, handshake deals made in smokey back rooms- fifteen years after the end of World War II, the United States of America takes its first shaky steps into an uncertain future.