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First son : the biography of Richard M. Daley / Keith Koeneman.
Van Pelt Library F548.54.D35 K64 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Koeneman, Keith.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Daley, Richard M. (Richard Michael), 1942-.
- Daley, Richard M.
- Mayors--Illinois--Chicago--Biography.
- Mayors.
- Illinois--Chicago.
- Chicago (Ill.)--Politics and government--1951-.
- Chicago (Ill.).
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 367 pages, 24 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.
- Summary:
- After 22 years, Richard M. Daley, the longest-serving and most powerful mayor in the history of Chicago--and, arguably, America--stepped down, leaving behind a city that was utterly transformed, and a complicated legacy that is only now being evaluated.
- Contents:
- A kid from Bridgeport
- Dick Daley
- Every happy family is the same
- Chicago visions
- The second generation
- From father to son
- Darwinian evolution
- Mayoral election of 1983
- Political calculus
- All hell breaks loose
- Restoration
- Chicago, 1989
- A new era
- Plugger
- Crime and grime
- Takeover of Chicago public schools
- Civilizing Richie
- Has Chicago had a sex change?
- Housing without hope
- Bill Daley
- Pride is the first deadly sin
- Crossing the river
- The two faces of Richie Daley
- Millennium Park
- Corruption tax
- Legacy
- Global city, parochial council
- One too many
- Sisyphus
- Bloodlines
- Sunrise, November 29, 2011.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226449470
- 0226449475
- OCLC:
- 809911107
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