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In this guest post from “Gotham,” a blog for scholars of New York history, Prof. Dan Williams, who obtained the IPA Collection and Luther Gulick Papers for Baruch, takes us back to the turbulent era that gave rise to the revolutionary good-government reforms of the Bureau of Municipal Research.