Table of Contents
1. Politics Chicago Style: The Turning Point
2. Population Diversity and Political Change, 1870–1970
3. Racial Change and Group Conflict
4. Race, Ethnicity, and Electoral Politics: The Daley Years,
1955–1976
5. Race, Ethnicity, and Electoral Politics: From Bilandic to Byrne,
1976–1982
6. The Politics of Race: The Democratic Mayoral Primary, 1983
7. Race War Chicago Style: The Election of a Mayor, 1983
8. Beyond Chicago and April 1983
Notes
Index
An important and provocative book that chronicles the history of
black empowerment in the city of Chicago and the sumultaneous
defeat of the last great urban political machine. The dramatic
nature of events that culminated in Washington's victory are
carefully unfolded by Kleppner so that this political history reads
like an exciting novel.
*Political Science Quarterly*
A significant contribution to the study of the growth of black
urban political power in recent decades.
*New York Times Book Review*
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