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Mayor Harold Washington - Champion of Race and Reform in Chicago (Paperback)
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Mayor Harold Washington - Champion of Race and Reform in Chicago (Paperback)
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Loot Price R576
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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.
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