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Mayor Harold Washington Champion of Race and Reform in Chicago Author(s): Roger Biles Format: Paperback Publisher: University of Illinois Press, United States Imprint: University of Illinois Press ISBN-13: 9780252085482, 978-0252085482

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In 1983, Harold Washington made history by becoming Chicago's first African American mayor. The racially charged campaign and election heralded an era of bitter political divisiveness that obstructed his efforts to change city government.

Roger Biles's sweeping biography provides a definitive account of Washington and his journey. Once in City Hall, Washington confronted the backroom deals, aldermanic thuggery, open corruption, and palm greasing that fueled the Chicago machine's autocratic political regime. His alternative: a vision of fairness, transparency, neighborhood empowerment, and balanced economic growth at one with his emergence as a dynamic champion for African American uplift and a crusader for progressive causes. Biles charts the countless infamies of the Council Wars era and Washington's own growth through his winning of a second term--a promise of lasting reform left unfulfilled when the mayor died in 1987.

Original and authoritative, Mayor Harold Washington redefines a pivotal era in Chicago's modern history.

  • Condition: New
  • ISBN: 9780252085482
  • Publication Year: 2020
  • Type: Textbook
  • Format: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Book Title: Mayor Harold Washington: Champion of Race and Reform in Chicago
  • Item Height: 235mm
  • Author: Roger Biles
  • Publisher: University of Illinois Press
  • Genre: Biographies & True Stories
  • Topic: Government, Politics
  • Item Width: 156mm
  • Number of Pages: 400 Pages

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