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Big Bill of Chicago
by Lloyd Wendt ; Herman Kogan ; Bette Jore
Binding: Paperback, 1 edition, 400 pages
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Weight: 1.1 pound
Dimension: H: 0.9 x L: 8.5 x W: 6 inches
ISBN 10: 0810123193
ISBN 13: 9780810123199
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To some he was a humanitarian and builder. Others scorned him as a fake and friend of gangsters with 'the carcass of a rhinoceros and the brain of a baboon.' This rollicking history traces the rise of William Hale 'Big Bill' Thompson, Chicago's famous reform mayor, from his upper class roots to his years as a teenaged cowboy, from his fame as a star athlete to the years as a master politician in a world where the ward boss ruled and whiskey for the voters cost a quarter a shot. Big Bill of Chicago profiles the whole brawling arena of city politics from the turn of the century to the Prohibition Era. It is a primer in the way American politics worked and works and a map along the countless winding ways even the dirtiest deal can lead to something great.

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