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Mayor Harold Washington - Champion of Race and Reform in Chicago (Hardcover)
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Mayor Harold Washington - Champion of Race and Reform in Chicago (Hardcover)
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Raised in a political family on Chicago's South Side, Harold
Washington made history as the city's first African American mayor.
His 1983 electoral triumph, fueled by overwhelming black support,
represented victory over the Chicago Machine and business as usual.
Yet the racially charged campaign 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 from the state legislature to
the mayoralty. Once in City Hall, Washington confronted the back
room deals, aldermanic thuggery, open corruption, and palm greasing
that fueled the city'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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