Big Bill of Chicago
Autor Lloyd Wendt, Herman Kogan Cuvânt înainte de Rick Kogan Bette Joreen Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 noi 2005
Winner of 2006 Illinois State Historical Society Book Award-Certificate of Excellence
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.
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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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780810123199
ISBN-10: 0810123193
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 152 x 216 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Northwestern University Press
Colecția Northwestern University Press
ISBN-10: 0810123193
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 152 x 216 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Northwestern University Press
Colecția Northwestern University Press
Notă biografică
Lloyd Wendt was a long-time Chicago journalist and the author of Chicago Tribune: The Rise of a Great American Newspaper (Rand McNally, 1979), and (with Herman Kogan) Give the Lady What She Wants: The Story of Marshall Field & Company (And Books, 1979).
Herman Kogan (1914-1989) spent fifty years covering Chicago, many with the Chicago Sun-Times. He is the author of Yesterday's Chicago (E.A. Seemann, 1976) and (with Lloyd Wendt) Give the Lady What She Wants: The Story of Marshall Field & Company (And Books, 1979).
Herman Kogan (1914-1989) spent fifty years covering Chicago, many with the Chicago Sun-Times. He is the author of Yesterday's Chicago (E.A. Seemann, 1976) and (with Lloyd Wendt) Give the Lady What She Wants: The Story of Marshall Field & Company (And Books, 1979).
Cuprins
Part I—The Education
1. A Noisy, High-Spirited Boy
2. Cowboy Bill
3. An Athelete Clean and Pure
4. In the Gray Wolves' Lair
5. The "Blond Boss"
6. Seventy-Nine Ballots and Twenty Two Days
7. A Man to Go Places
8. Enter the "Poor Swede"
9. "Bill Thompson Is the Man for Me!"
10. Mayor Big Bill
Part II—The Reign
11. Reformer and Rascal
12. "Liars! Hypocrites! Fourflushers! Bunk! Bunk! Bunk!"
13. Kaiser Bill
14. A Remarkable Victory
15. Cream Cheese vs. Limburger
16. The Big Triumph
17. Wrong Guesses
18. Scandal—and More Scandal
19. No Longer a Trilby
20. Al Capone Moves In
21. Down with King George!
22. America First and America's Thirst
23. "Throw Away Your Hammer and Get a Horn!"
24. The Trial of William McAndrew
25. Thompson's "Jonah Years"
26. The Beginning of the End
Part III—The Last Years
27. No Friends, No Foes
28. End—and Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
1. A Noisy, High-Spirited Boy
2. Cowboy Bill
3. An Athelete Clean and Pure
4. In the Gray Wolves' Lair
5. The "Blond Boss"
6. Seventy-Nine Ballots and Twenty Two Days
7. A Man to Go Places
8. Enter the "Poor Swede"
9. "Bill Thompson Is the Man for Me!"
10. Mayor Big Bill
Part II—The Reign
11. Reformer and Rascal
12. "Liars! Hypocrites! Fourflushers! Bunk! Bunk! Bunk!"
13. Kaiser Bill
14. A Remarkable Victory
15. Cream Cheese vs. Limburger
16. The Big Triumph
17. Wrong Guesses
18. Scandal—and More Scandal
19. No Longer a Trilby
20. Al Capone Moves In
21. Down with King George!
22. America First and America's Thirst
23. "Throw Away Your Hammer and Get a Horn!"
24. The Trial of William McAndrew
25. Thompson's "Jonah Years"
26. The Beginning of the End
Part III—The Last Years
27. No Friends, No Foes
28. End—and Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
Descriere
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.