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| List of Tables and Illustrations | xi | |
| Preface | xiii | |
| Prologue: The Clash in the Council | 1 | |
| Revising Regime Studies | 3 | |
| Studying the Chicago City Council | 7 | |
| Notes | 9 | |
| Part I | Divided Councils | |
| 1 | Nineteenth-Century and Civil War Councils: 1833-1871 | 15 |
| Mayor and Party Leaders in the Civil War City Council | 21 | |
| Civil War Clashes | 25 | |
| The Powers of Local Government | 40 | |
| The End of the War, 1863-1865 | 41 | |
| Notes | 43 | |
| 2 | The Councils of the Gray Wolves, 1871-1931 | 46 |
| The Birth of Chicago Machine Politics, 1871-1905 | 47 | |
| Edward Dunne's Council, 1905-1907 | 53 | |
| Fred Busse's Council, 1907-1908 | 63 | |
| Big Bill Thompson's Councils, 1915-1923 and 1927-1931 | 69 | |
| Fragmented City Councils | 79 | |
| Notes | 82 | |
| Part II | Rubber Stamp Councils | |
| 3 | Kelly-Nash Machine Council, 1933-1947 | 89 |
| The City Council, 1939-1940 | 95 | |
| The Chicago Machine | 103 | |
| Notes | 104 | |
| 4 | Richard J. Daley's Rubber Stamp, 1955-1976 | 107 |
| Aldermanic Elections of 1955 | 111 | |
| The Council of 1955 | 113 | |
| Richard J. Daley's Last Years | 131 | |
| Participatory Versus Machine Politics | 150 | |
| Notes | 154 | |
| 5 | Michael Bilandic's Interlude, 1976-1979 | 159 |
| The Bilandic Council | 168 | |
| The Silent Revolution | 177 | |
| Notes | 180 | |
| 6 | Jane Byrne's Turmoil, 1979-1983 | 183 |
| The Byrne Council: Young Turks Come to Power | 186 | |
| Tearing Down the Daley Machine | 195 | |
| Growing Revolt in the African-American Community | 196 | |
| Notes | 199 | |
| Part III | Council Wars and Chaos | |
| 7 | Harold Washington's Council Wars, 1983-1987 | 203 |
| 1983 Campaign | 204 | |
| Council Wars | 210 | |
| 1987 Elections | 219 | |
| From Council Wars to Rubber Stamp | 220 | |
| The Brief Triumph of Progressive Politics | 221 | |
| Notes | 224 | |
| 8 | Eugene Sawyer's Chaos, 1987-1989 | 226 |
| Sawyer's Selection | 226 | |
| The Sawyer City Council | 231 | |
| Chaotic Interlude | 240 | |
| Notes | 242 | |
| Part IV | Return to Mayoral Control | |
| 9 | Daley's Return, 1989-2003 | 247 |
| Democratic Primary | 249 | |
| General Election | 253 | |
| The New Daley Council | 253 | |
| The New Daley Machine | 287 | |
| Notes | 290 | |
| Part V | History from the Council Chambers | |
| 10 | Changing Patterns in Mayor--Council Relations | 297 |
| Roll Call Vote Analysis | 300 | |
| Types of Councils | 300 | |
| Ideal Types | 313 | |
| Studying Other Cities | 318 | |
| Notes | 319 | |
| 11 | Democracy's Endless Struggle | 322 |
| Enlarging Regime Studies | 324 | |
| Chicago's Story | 324 | |
| City Council Reform | 328 | |
| The Meaning for America | 329 | |
| Notes | 330 | |
| Postscript and Acknowledgments | 331 | |
| Index | 333 |
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Robert ackermann
reviewed Rogues, Rebels And Rubberstamps on June 05, 2019
Rogues, Rebels And Rubberstamps
A good introduction to labor and racial struggles in Detroit going back over 100 years. The book was especially strong in its descriptions of the strikes that led to the building of the CIO in Detroit in the 1930s, and the oppression that led up to the riot of 1967.
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Add Rogues, Rebels And Rubberstamps, In Rogues, Rebels, and Rubber Stamps, Dick Simpson challenges and recasts current theories of Regime Politics as he chronicles the dramatic story of the civic wars in the Chicago City Council since the civil war. At the same time, the author provid, Rogues, Rebels And Rubberstamps to the inventory that you are selling on WonderClubX
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Add Rogues, Rebels And Rubberstamps, In Rogues, Rebels, and Rubber Stamps, Dick Simpson challenges and recasts current theories of Regime Politics as he chronicles the dramatic story of the civic wars in the Chicago City Council since the civil war. At the same time, the author provid, Rogues, Rebels And Rubberstamps to your collection on WonderClub |