Big Bill of Chicago
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Winner of 2006 Illinois State Historical Society Book Award-Certificate of Excellence 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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0810123193
ISBN13:9780810123199
Release Date:November 2005
Publisher:Northwestern University Press
Length:400 Pages
Weight:1.15 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 8.7"
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