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The man who emptied death row : Governor George Ryan and the politics of crime / James L. Merriner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Merriner, James L., 1947-
- Series:
- Elmer H. Johnson and Carol Holmes Johnson series in criminology
- The Elmer H. Johnson and Carol Holmes Johnson series in criminology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political corruption--Illinois.
- Capital punishment--Political aspects--Illinois.
- Ryan, George H.
- Governors--Illinois--Biography.
- Governors.
- Capital punishment--Political aspects.
- Capital punishment.
- Political corruption.
- Illinois.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 200 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2008]
- Contents:
- 1 See Kankakee for a Dime 9
- 2 Smell the Meat a-Cookin' 17
- 3 What Can I Do for You? 24
- 4 I Push This Button Right Here 34
- 5 Cut Ribbons and Hand Out Money 42
- 6 These Are My Guys 52
- 7 The One Guy Left in This Business 59
- 8 They Thought It Was Too Political 66
- 9 Some Comic Book Character Called "The Fixer" 71
- 10 Boy, Those Guys Are Good 79
- 11 We Looked Thirty-two Ways for That 86
- 12 Fat Friday and Fab Five 94
- 13 Castro Set It Up 102
- 14 The World Series of All 110
- 15 If Those Students Had Taken Chemistry 119
- 16 The Book of Life and the Book of Death 126
- 17 Custer and the Indians 133
- 18 My Head in a Vise 140
- 19 A Real Schnorrer 149
- 20 Twelve Years of Christmas 155
- 21 A Mutating Virus 163.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-195) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780809328659
- 0809328658
- OCLC:
- 191023962
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