Mike Royko was a nationally syndicated columnist working for the Chicago Tribune. His other books include Like I Was Saying and Sez Who? Sez Me.
"The best book ever written about an American city, by the best
journalist of his time. Perhaps it will stand as the best book ever
written about the American condition at this time. It comes at you
from the saloons and neighborhoods, the police stations and
political backrooms. It is about lies and viciousness, about the
worship of cement and the hatred toward blacks, about troubling
cowardice that hides behind religion and patriotism while the poor
get clubbed and killed.
Royko’s book also does more written
damage to a man than perhaps anything I have ever read.
I know of
no place where it will not be read and quoted and kept and read
again."
Jimmy Breslin“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 and
tears.”
— Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times“There’s nobody
better than Mike Royko writing politics anywhere in the country
today. About the book? It’s Daley; Royko’s got him to the life. And
it’s Chicago. Even if you’ve never been there you know it’s
Chicago. A fine job.”
—Russell Baker, The New York Times"Stunning, astonishing,
myth-shattering!"
Studs Terkel, New York Times Book Review"Without question the
most devastating dissection of a personal municipal fief I've ever
read
Brilliant!"
John Barkham, Saturday Review Syndicate"A great book
Chicago
and the lesser towns that make up urban America may or may not die.
But you won't understand why they hurst so much until you read
Boss."
The Washington Post
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