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Dirty Waters - Confessions of Chicago's Last Harbor Boss (Hardcover)
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Dirty Waters - Confessions of Chicago's Last Harbor Boss (Hardcover)
Series: Chicago Visions and Revisions
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In 1987, the city of Chicago hired a former radical college
chaplain to clean up rampant corruption on the waterfront. R. J.
Nelson thought he was used to the darker side of the law he had
been followed by federal agents and wiretapped due to his antiwar
stances in the sixties but nothing could prepare him for the
wretched bog that constituted the world of a Harbor Boss. Director
of Harbors and Marine Services was a position so mired in
corruption that its previous four directors ended up in federal
prison. Nelson inherited angry constituents, prying journalists,
shell-shocked employees, and a tobacco-stained office still bearing
a busted door that had been smashed in by the FBI. Undeterred,
Nelson made it his personal mission to become a "pneumacrat," a
public servant who, for the common good, always follows the spirit
if not always the letter of the law.Dirty Waters is a wry,
no-holds-barred memoir of Nelson's time controlling some of the
city's most beautiful spots while facing some of its ugliest
traditions. A guide like no other, Nelson takes us through
Chicago's beloved "blue spaces" and deep into the city's political
morass. He reveals the different moralities underlining three
mayoral administrations, from Harold Washington to Richard M.
Daley, and navigates us through the gritty mechanisms of the
Chicago machine. He also deciphers the sometimes insular world of
boaters and their fraught relationship with their land-based
neighbors. Ultimately, Dirty Waters is a tale of morality, of what
it takes to be a force for good in the world and what struggles
come from trying to stay ethically afloat in a sea of corruption.
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