American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley - His Battle for Chicago and the Nation by Adam Cohen, Elizabeth Taylor

American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley - His Battle for Chicago and the Nation

Adam Cohen, Elizabeth Taylor

640 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction biography history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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"This is Chicago, this is America." With those words, Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley famously defended his brutal crackdown on protesters at the 1968 Democratic convention. Profoundly divided racially, economically and socially, Chicago was indeed...

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