Roger C. Sullivan and the Making of the Chicago Democratic Machine, 1881-1908
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9781476663777
Subjects: Democratic party (u.s.); Politicians, united states; Chicago (ill.), biography; Chicago (ill.), politics and government; United states, ethnic relations
Description: "Dominating the Windy City for decades, the Chicago Democratic Machine has become a fixture in American political history. Under Mayor Richard J. Daley, it acquired almost mythical (perhaps notorious) status. Yet its origins have remained murky--some say it began as a shady enterprise during the ethnic upheaval of the late 1920s"--