Boss Richard J Daley of Chicago Author:Mike Royko You can pore over fine books like The Greening of America and Future Shock, but you can't know how this country works until you read Boss! Jimmy Breslin, Chicago Daily News. — A pungent and precise portrait of how big-city politics work. And it is brisk and lively reading in the bargain. . .Muckraking at its best, a remorseless book that bites a... more »nd tears. Christopher Lehmann-Haupt. The New York Times« less