Urban Studies Seminar 430
Independent Study Book List ~ Chicago Politics

 Dr. Andrew K. Prinz

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Book List

Banfield, Edward C. Political Influence (l965). 352.077311 B215PE

Biles, Roger. Big City Boss in Depression and War: Mayor Edward J. Kelly of Chicago (l984). 977.311 K29yb

Bukowski, Douglas. Big Bill Thompson, Chicago, and the Politics of Image, (1998). 977.311042 T478Yb

____________. Richard J. Daley: Politics, Race and the Governing of Chicago (1995) PB, Text 977.311043 D141YB

Byrne, Jane M. My Chicago (1991). 352.00092b

Ciccone, F. Richard. Daley: Power and Presidential Politics, (1996). 977.31104 D141YC

Cohen, Adam and Elizabeth Taylor. American Pharaoh: Richard J. Daley, (2000) (Big Book) 977.311043 D141Yc

Fitzgerald, Kathleen Whalen. Brass: Jane Byrne and the Pursuit of Power (l98l). 977.311 B995yf

Fremon, David K. Chicago Politics Ward By Ward (1988). R977.311043 F872c

Gosnell, Harold F. Machine Politics Chicago Model, 2nd ed. (l937, l968). (A Classic) 320.977311 G676m

______________ Negro Politicians: The Rise of Negro Politics in Chicago (l935, l967). (A Classic) 977.311 G676N

Gove, Samuel K. & Louis H. Masotti. After Daley: Chicago Politics in Transition (l982). 977.311 A258

Granger, Bill & Lori Granger. Fighting Jane: Mayor Jane and the Chicago Machine (l980). 977.311 B995yg

______________. Lords of The Last Machine (l987). 977.311043 6758L

Green, Paul M. & Melvin G. Holli, eds. The Mayors: The Chicago Political Tradition (l987). 977.311 M473 Rev. Ed. 1995V

______________. Restoration 1989: Chicago Elects a New Daley (1991). 324.977311 R436

Grimshaw, William. Bitter Fruit: Black Politics And the Chicago Machine, 1931-1991 (1992). 323.1196073 G865B

Holli, Melvin G. & Paul M. Green. Bashing Chicago Tradition: Harold Washington's Last Campaign (1989). 977.311043 W318yh

Holli, Melvin G. & Paul M. Green, eds. The Making of the Chicago Mayor, l983 (l984). 324.977311 M235

Joseph, Lawrence B., ed. Affordable housing & Public Policy: Strategies for Metropolitan Chicago (1993).

Kennedy, Eugene. Himself!: The Life and Times of Mayor Richard J. Daley (l978). 977.311 D141yk

Kleppner, Paul. Chicago Dividend: The Making of a Black Mayor (l985). 324.977311 K64c

Mayer, Harold & Richard Wade. Chicago, Growth of a Metropolis (l969). 917.7311 M468c

Miller, Alton. Harold Washington: The Mayor, The Man (1989). 977.311 W318ym

O'Conner, Len. Clout: Mayor Daley And His City (l974). 977.311 D141yo

___________ . Requiem (l977). 977.311018R

Rakove, Milton. Don't Make No Waves, Don't Back No Losers (l975). 352.077311 R162d

____________. We Don't Want Nobody, Nobody Sent (l979). 320.977311 R381W

Royko, Mike. Boss (l97l). 977.311 D141yr

Schmidt, John R. The Mayor Who Cleaned Up Chicago: A Political Biography of William E. Dever (1989). 977.311042 D491ys

Simpson, Dick. Rogues, Rebels, and Rubber Stamps: The Politics of the Chicago City Council from 1863 to the Present, (2001). PB 320.9773 S613r

Slayton, Robert A. Back of the Yards: The Making of a Local Democracy (l986). 307.1409773 S631b

Sullivan, Frank. Legend: The Only Inside Story About Mayor Richard J. Daley (1989). 977.311 D1394Ys

Travis, Dempsey J. Harold: The People's Mayor (1989).

Wendt, Lloyd and Herman Kogan. Bosses of Lusty Chicago (l943, l967)

Wille, Lois. Forever Open, Clear and Free: The Struggle for Chicago'sLakefront (l972). 307.1 W697f1991

Selected Reference Works

Fiske, Barbara Page, ed. Key to Government in Chicago and Suburban Cook County (1989). R352.07731 K44 1989

Hayner, Don and Tom McNamee. Streetwise Chicago (1988).

The Chicago Fact Book Consortium, ed. Local Community Fact Book Chicago Metropolitan Area, 1980 (1984). 917.7311 K621

 

This page was made in collaboration with Dr. Andrew Prinz and Donna Goodwyn of the Elmhurst College Library. 4/24/02
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