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| #4110673 in Books | Northwestern University Press | 2005-11-08 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x1.00 x6.00l,1.11 | File type: PDF | 400 pages | ||2 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Big Bill Cannot Be Bought, Bossed or Bluffed!|By Borowy26|This is the most popular and widely read of the biographies of Chicago last Republican mayor. William Hale Thompson, Jr., was truly sui generis.
Despite being born to a wealth family, Thompson charted an unusual career path by dropping out of high school and working as a grocery clerk, a railway brakeman, and
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To some he was a humanitarian and builder. Others scorned him as a fake and friend of gangsters with "the carcass of a rhinoceros and the brain of a baboon." This rollicking history traces the rise of William Hale "Big Bill" Thompson, Chicago's famous reform mayor, from his upper class roots to his years as a teenaged cowboy, from his fame as a star athlete to the years a...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Big Bill of Chicago | Lloyd Wendt, Herman Kogan, Bette Jore. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.