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Big Bill of Chicago
Big Bill of Chicago
Author: Lloyd Wendt, Herman Kogan, Bette Jore
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 ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780810123199
ISBN-10: 0810123193
Publication Date: 11/8/2005
Pages: 400
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Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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