Grafters and Goo Goos : corruption and reform in Chicago, 1833-2003 /
"Grafters and Goo Goos: Corruption and Reform in Chicago, 1833-2003 unfolds the city's notorious history of corruption and the counterveiling reform struggles that largely failed to clean it up. More than a regional history of crime in politics, this wide-ranging account of governmental ma...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
c2004.
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| Summary: | "Grafters and Goo Goos: Corruption and Reform in Chicago, 1833-2003 unfolds the city's notorious history of corruption and the counterveiling reform struggles that largely failed to clean it up. More than a regional history of crime in politics, this wide-ranging account of governmental malfeasances traces ongoing public corruption and reform to its ninteenth-century democratic roots. Former Chicago journalist James L. Merriner reveals the battles between corrupt politicos and ardent reformers to be expressions of conflicting class, ethnic, and religious values."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Physical Description: | xix, 302 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-294) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0809325713 (alk. paper) |