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• Characters: William Hale Thompson
• Release date: November 8, 2005
• Language: english
• Format: paperback, 400 pages
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Author: Lloyd Wendt, Herman Kogan, Bette Jore, Rick Kogan
• ISBN: 9780810123199 (0810123193)

About The Book

Winner of 2006 Illinois State Historical Society Book Award-Certificate of Excellence

To some he was a humanitarian and builder. Others scorned him as a fake and friend of gangsters with “the carcass of a rhinoceros and the brain of a baboon.” This rollicking history traces the rise of William Hale “Big Bill” Thompson, Chicago’s famous reform mayor, from his upper class roots to his years as a teenaged cowboy, from his fame as a star athlete to the years as a master politician in a world where the ward boss ruled and whiskey for the voters cost a quarter a shot. Big Bill of Chicago profiles the whole brawling arena of city politics from the turn of the century to the Prohibition Era. It is a primer in the way American politics worked-and works-and a map along the countless winding ways even the dirtiest deal can lead to something great.

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