Overview

This title pinpoints the interplay between corrupt politicos and ardent reformers. """"Grafters and Goo Goos: Corruption and Reform in Chicago"""" unfolds the city's notorious history of corruption and the countervailing reform struggles that largely failed to clean it up. More than a regional history of crime in politics, this wide-ranging account of governmental malfeasances traces ongoing public corruption and reform to its nineteenth-century democratic roots.

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9780809328741

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""Grafters and Goo Goos is a solidly written and researched account with strong and challenging arguments. Covering a broad sweep of Chicago history and culture, It is highly recommended to anyone with an interest in Chicago politics."" - Journal of Illinois History ""This book is a bit more about corruption than reform, but then so is Chicago. That's what makes the book so absorbing."" - Booklist""

Grafters and Goo Goos is a solidly written and researched account with strong and challenging arguments. Covering a broad sweep of Chicago history and culture, It is highly recommended to anyone with an interest in Chicago politics. - Journal of Illinois History This book is a bit more about corruption than reform, but then so is Chicago. That's what makes the book so absorbing. - Booklist

Author Information

James L. Merriner covered Chicago and national politics for more than two decades as political editor of the Chicago Sun-Times and the Atlanta Constitution. He was the James Thurber Journalist in Residence at Ohio State University in 1996. Merriner is coauthor of Against Long Odds: Citizens Who Challenge Congressional Incumbents.

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