Big Bill of Chicago

Lloyd Wendt,Herman Kogan

Big Bill of Chicago
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Country
United States
Published
1 November 2005
Pages
370
ISBN
9780810123199

Big Bill of Chicago

Lloyd Wendt,Herman Kogan

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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