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King David and Boss Daley
- The Black Disciples, Mayor Daley and Chicago on the Edge
Engelsk Hardback
King David and Boss Daley
- The Black Disciples, Mayor Daley and Chicago on the Edge
Engelsk Hardback

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In Chicago in mid-twentieth century amid the haze and smoke of urban renewal and the sounds of the wrecking balls and bulldozers, there lived two men, both street-savvy, one Black, one Irish, one young, one old and both leaders of their clans. Each ruled with an iron fist. Each embodied the fighting spirit of the turbulent 1960s. One was David Barksdale, the Black Disciples leader, a Black youth club that would give birth to America''s largest street gang; the other was Richard J. Daley, the legendary Mayor of the City of Chicago. He was one of the longest-serving, most prominent mayors in American history and the last of the big-city "bosses." Although the two never met, at least not face-to-face, their fates were linked by a time of change, an era of protest, which was a decisive moment of transformational power that was on the verge of a violent uprising in America''s second-largest cit

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
338
ISBN-13:
9781633887862
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1633887863
Udg. Dato:
17 jun 2022
Længde:
0mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
Prometheus Books
Oplagsdato:
17 jun 2022
Forfatter(e):
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