Roger Biles

Mayor Harold Washington: Champion of Race and Reform in Chicago

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Roger Biles is Professor Emeritus of History at Illinois State University. His books include Richard J. Daley: Politics, Race, and the Governing of Chicago and The Fate of Cities: Urban America and the Federal Government, 1945-2000.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Illinois Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 771g
• ISBN-13: 9780252041853
• ISBN-10: 0252041852
• Artikelnr.: 49776320

Autorenporträt

Roger Biles

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Race, Reform, and Redistribution 1
1 From Machine Regular to Progressive Democrat 15
2 The Plan and the Man 53
3 The Devalued Prize 105
4 Chicago Works Together 145
5 Balanced Growth 189
6 In Search of a Mandate 231
7 The Final Months 270
8 Harold Washington and Chicago 307
Notes 331
Index 377
Photographs follow page 181