The luster will continue for those who remain true to their clients.
Rogues will implode from their own hubris, and go down in flames. Political bosses over the decades have ranged from out-and-out robbers to latter-day Robin Hoods.
But either way, individuals deserve the credit when times are good, and individuals are to blame when the going gets rough. Library selected it as one of the hundred most important books of the 20th century. The extinguished rogues, meanwhile, having imploded under the weight of hubris and greed, leave behind only a tarnished legacy.