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Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago

by Mike Royko · 1971

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"Fortunately, nothing can stop a book whose time has come. Mike Royko, Chicago's most incisive & impertinent journalist since Finley Peter Dunne, has produced such a work. It is an occasion for celebration...It is a stunning portrait of a clod, his resistable rise, & fortuitousness; of that psychic frontier where the man leaves off & the Machine begins. Daley's pomp & presence are a tribute to doggedness, good bookkeeping &, most important, being around."—Studs Terkel, NY Times Book Review, 4/4/71

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20th century20th centuryMore like thisLess of thisChicagoChicagoMore like thisLess of thisIllinoisIllinoisMore like thisLess of thisUSAUSAMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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medium · 216 pages

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