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The gambler king of Clark Street : Michael C. McDonald and the rise of Chicago's Democratic machine /
The Gambler King of Clark Street: Michael C. McDonald and the Rise of Chicago's Democratic Machine tells the story of a larger-than-life figure who fused Chicago's criminal underworld with the city's political and commercial spheres to create an urban machine built on graft, bribery,...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
©2009.
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| Collection: | Elmer H. Johnson and Carol Holmes Johnson series in criminology.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | The Gambler King of Clark Street: Michael C. McDonald and the Rise of Chicago's Democratic Machine tells the story of a larger-than-life figure who fused Chicago's criminal underworld with the city's political and commercial spheres to create an urban machine built on graft, bribery, and intimidation. In this first ever biography of McDonald, author Richard C. Lindberg vividly paints the life of the Democratic kingmaker against the wider backdrop of nineteenth-century Chicago crime and politics. Twenty-five years before Al Capone's birth, Michael McDonald was b. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (xiv, 293 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations. |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-282) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781441623331 1441623337 9780809386543 0809386542 |