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Author | : Kathleen Whalen FitzGerald |
Publisher | : McGraw-Hill/Contemporary |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Kathleen Whalen FitzGerald |
Publisher | : McGraw-Hill/Contemporary |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Paul Michael Green |
Publisher | : SIU Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Chicago (Ill.) |
ISBN | : 9780809388455 |
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Author | : Dominic A. Pacyga |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 2009-10-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226644324 |
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Chicago has been called by many names. Nelson Algren declared it a “City on the Make.” Carl Sandburg dubbed it the “City of Big Shoulders.” Upton Sinclair christened it “The Jungle,” while New Yorkers, naturally, pronounced it “the Second City.” At last there is a book for all of us, whatever we choose to call Chicago. In this magisterial biography, historian Dominic Pacyga traces the storied past of his hometown, from the explorations of Joliet and Marquette in 1673 to the new wave of urban pioneers today. The city’s great industrialists, reformers, and politicians—and, indeed, the many not-so-great and downright notorious—animate this book, from Al Capone and Jane Addams to Mayor Richard J. Daley and President Barack Obama. But what distinguishes this book from the many others on the subject is its author’s uncommon ability to illuminate the lives of Chicago’s ordinary people. Raised on the city’s South Side and employed for a time in the stockyards, Pacyga gives voice to the city’s steelyard workers and kill floor operators, and maps the neighborhoods distinguished not by Louis Sullivan masterworks, but by bungalows and corner taverns. Filled with the city’s one-of-a-kind characters and all of its defining moments, Chicago: A Biography is as big and boisterous as its namesake—and as ambitious as the men and women who built it.
Author | : Gordon K. Mantler |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2023-02-07 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1469673878 |
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In April 1983, a dynamic, multiracial political coalition did the unthinkable, electing Harold Washington as the first Black mayor of Chicago. Washington's victory was unlikely not just because America's second city was one of the nation's most racially balkanized but also because it came at a time when Ronald Reagan and other political conservatives seemed resurgent. Washington's initial win and reelection in 1987 established the charismatic politician as a folk hero. It also bolstered hope among Democrats that the party could win elections by pulling together multiracial urban voters around progressive causes. Yet what could be called the Washington era revealed clear limits to electoral politics and racial coalition building when decoupled from neighborhood-based movement organizing. Drawing on a rich array of archives and oral history interviews, Gordon K. Mantler offers a bold reexamination of the Harold Washington movement and moment. Taking readers into Chicago's street-level politics and the often tense relationships among communities and their organizers, Mantler shows how white supremacy, deindustrialization, dysfunction, and voters' own contradictory expectations stubbornly impeded many of Washington's proposed reforms. Ultimately, Washington's historic victory and the thwarted ambitions of his administration provide a cautionary tale about the peril of placing too much weight on electoral politics above other forms of civic action—a lesson today's activists would do well to heed.
Author | : Gerald D. Suttles |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1990-03-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780226781938 |
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With its extraordinary uniform street grid, its magnificent lake-side park, and innovative architecture and public sculpture, Chicago is one of the most planned cities of the modern era. Yet over the past few decades Chicago has come to epitomize some of the worst evils of urban decay: widespread graft and corruption, political stalemates, troubled race relations, and economic decline. Broad-shouldered boosterism can no longer disguise the city's failure to keep pace with others, its failure to attract new "sunrise" industries and world-class events. For Chicago, as for other rust-belt cities, new ways of planning and managing the urban environment are now much more than civic beautification; they are the means to survival. Gerald D. Suttles here offers an irreverent, highly critical guide to both the realities and myths of land-use planning and development in Chicago from 1976 through 1987.
Author | : William J. Grimshaw |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226308944 |
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William Grimshaw offers an insider's chronicle of the tangled relationship between the black community and the Chicago Democratic machine from its Great Depression origins to 1991. What emerges is a myth-busting account not of a monolithic organization but of several distinct party regimes, each with a unique relationship to black voters and leaders.
Author | : Paul M. Green |
Publisher | : SIU Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2013-01-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0809331993 |
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Originally released in 1987, The Mayors: The Chicago Political Tradition gathered some of the finest minds in political thought to provide shrewd analysis of Chicago’s mayors and their administrations. Twenty-five years later, this fourth edition continues to illuminate the careers of some of Chicago’s most respected, forceful, and even notorious mayors, leaders whose lives were often as vibrant and eclectic as the city they served. In addition to chapters on the individual mayors—including a new chapter on Rahm Emanuel, enhanced by an expert explanation of the current state of the city’s budget by Laurence Msall, president of the Civic Federation—this new edition offers an insightful overview of the Chicago mayoral tradition throughout the city’s history; rankings of the mayors evaluated on their leadership and political qualities; an appendix of Chicago’s mayors and their years of service; and additional updated materials. Chicago’s mayoral history is one of corruption and reform, scandal and ambition. This well-researched volume, more relevant than ever twenty-five years after its first edition, presents an intriguing and informative glimpse into the fascinating lives and legacies of Chicago’s most influential leaders.
Author | : Andrew S. Baer |
Publisher | : Historical Studies of Urban America |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Police brutality |
ISBN | : 022670047X |
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"The malign influence of Chicago police commander Jon Burge cannot be overestimated. While it can scarcely be said that Burge was the only violently racist Chicago cop, he has become the very emblem of police brutality and unequal treatment for nonwhite people, and his actions have had widespread reverberations. During his many years on the force, Burge used barbaric methods, including electric shock, beatings, burnings, and mock executions, to coerce confessions and information from the guilty and the innocent alike. After exposure of his actions in 1989, Burge became a totem for police racism in Chicago and nationwide. Andrew S. Baer here shows that Burge arose from a particular milieu, and his actions fueled resistance that might not otherwise have cohered so powerfully"--
Author | : John C. Super |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download The Seventies in America Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Presents volume one of a three-volume encyclopedia that describes the events, movements, trends, people, sports, science, music, politics, and more of the 1970s listed in alphabetical order.