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Title The bosses / edited by John D. Haeger, Michael P. Weber.

Imprint Saint Louis, Mo. : Forum Press, c1979.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Special Collections Misse  364.1323 B654 1979    ---  Lib Use Only
Edition Rev. ed.
Description 118 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [115]-118).
Contents pt. 1. Nineteenth-century political boss. Tweed ring / Frank Goodnow -- Immigrant and the boss / Alexander B. Callow, Jr. -- Ward boss / George Washington Plunkitt -- Corporations, machines and bosses / Mosei Ostogorski -- Apology for bossism / Richard Croker -- pt. 3. Twentieth-century political boss. Boss as reformer / Frederick C. Howe -- New deal and the boss / Lyle Dorsett -- Richard J. Daley, modern boss / David Halberstam -- Machine politics, Chicago style / Mike Royko -- Future of machine politics / Edward Banfield and James Wilson.
Subject Political corruption.
Municipal government.
Added Author Haeger, John D.
Weber, Michael P.
ISBN 0882731033 (pbk.)

 
    
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