The Gambler King of Clark Street: Michael C. McDonald and the Rise of Chicago's Democratic Machine

Richard C Lindberg

The Gambler King of Clark Street: Michael C. McDonald and the Rise of Chicago's Democratic Machine
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Country
United States
Published
22 March 2017
Pages
328
ISBN
9780809335831

The Gambler King of Clark Street: Michael C. McDonald and the Rise of Chicago’s Democratic Machine

Richard C Lindberg

The Gambler King of Clark Street tells the story of a larger-than-life figure who fused Chicago’s criminal underworld with the city’s political and commercial spheres to create an urban machine built on graft, bribery, and intimidation. Lindberg vividly paints the life of the Democratic kingmaker against the wider backdrop of nineteenth-century Chicago crime and politics.,br> McDonald has long been cited in the published work of city historians, members of academia, and the press as the principal architect of a unified criminal enterprise that reached into the corridors of power in Chicago, Cook County, the state of Illinois, and ultimately the Oval Office. The Gambler King of Clark Street is both a major addition to Chicago’s historical literature and a revealing biography of a powerful and troubled man.

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