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    <body><![CDATA[Wow.  This book was fantastic.  Like Nelson Algren, I think Boss should be essential reading for a life-long Chicagoan.  I don't look at the city the same way.  The buildings, the city's workings, even articles in the Chicago Tribune--it all looks different to me now.  It's a good thing, although no...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16890167">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed reading Author Mike Royko's columns in the major Chicago metropolitan daily newspaper, where for a brief time, we both worked. His book about the political patronage system of the Chicago Democratic &quot;Machine&quot; so-called, while interesting and well informed, overlooks the su...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71774923">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[i finally finished this rowdy book that could be read in a single sitting at a noisy bar. what can i say? so little has changed. i am fascinated by what the current mayor thinks of his father and how he believes his regime differs. and I will never look the same way at &quot;Venetian Night&quot; aga...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Royko is so amazing, every sentence is funny, informative and loaded with hidden meaning. I read this book maybe 20 years ago while I was still living in Chicago, when Royko was still alive, when Daley Sr. was still fresh in my memory; it was great then, but is even more interesting to me now that I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36759429">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&quot;Boss&quot; is Mike Royko's (Chicago journalist)unauthorized biography of Mayor Richard J. Daley, the City of the Chicago and the Democratic Machine that held them both together. Protege of the Reader's Digest column &quot;That's Incredible&quot;, this hard hitting book is written in Royko's familiar caustic style.<br/><br/>From Wikipedia: &quot;On its [Boss'] publishing, the Mayor of Chicago forced 200 Chicago private bookstores to not stock Boss, but public demand for the book over-rode the Mayor, and book stores sold Boss, later, the Mayor's wife was caught vandalizing copies.&quot;<br/><br/>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This devastating account of the first Daley regime works as a kind of history of Chicago history of the fifties through the sixties.  I say that because Daley had a desire to have absolute control when possible and domineering influence when the previous proved difficult.  Its not hard to see why Da...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33542359">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&quot;Boss&quot; is Mike Royko's (Chicago journalist)unauthorized biography of Mayor Richard J. Daley, the City of the Chicago and the Democratic Machine that held them both together. Protege of the Reader's Digest column &quot;That's Incredible&quot;, this hard hitting book is written in Royko's familiar caustic style.<br/><br/>From Wikipedia: &quot;On its [Boss'] publishing, the Mayor of Chicago forced 200 Chicago private bookstores to not stock Boss, but public demand for the book over-rode the Mayor, and book stores sold Boss, later, the Mayor's wife was caught vandalizing copies.&quot;<br/><br/>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[A very well-written narrative of Richard J. Daley, his Democratic political machine, and his city of Chicago.<br/>While Royko starts off fairly sympathetic of Daley as just a politico who diligently rises up party and government ranks (thanks in part to an awful lot of unrelated, timely deaths), the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31633917">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&quot;Boss&quot; is Mike Royko's (Chicago journalist)unauthorized biography of Mayor Richard J. Daley, the City of the Chicago and the Democratic Machine that held them both together. Protege of the Reader's Digest column &quot;That's Incredible&quot;, this hard hitting book is written in Royko's familiar caustic style.<br/><br/>From Wikipedia: &quot;On its [Boss'] publishing, the Mayor of Chicago forced 200 Chicago private bookstores to not stock Boss, but public demand for the book over-rode the Mayor, and book stores sold Boss, later, the Mayor's wife was caught vandalizing copies.&quot;<br/><br/>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was excellent, of course.  Mike Royko is one of the most brilliant writers that I've ever read.  The book isn't a definitive history (It's lacking in details, statistics, and facts).  Rather, it is a sort of narrative, detailing the history of The Machine in Chicago and of Richard Daley, w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28597708">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this among Dad's books when I got home from college during the Christmas break and read it in a sitting.  Neither definitive nor scholarly, it's still a mildly amusing tale of Daley, Chicago politics and his rise to power within it.<br/><br/>I only saw Richard J. Daley in the flesh once, a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51331594">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The first and last chapters of this book are perfect. Everything in between is pretty much just as good but nothing quite matches the way Mike Royko opens and closes this book. Completely scathing, and kind of like poetry. I read that when this book -- which, when you get right down to it, is about ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55893639">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[How did I forget this one?  The seminal piece of Richard J. Daley muckraking, by the dean of hardnosed, smart-assed Chicago journalism.  (For those of you who don't/have never lived in Chicago, the original Mayor Daley - - his son Richard M. is the mayor now, and has been for the last 18 years or so...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14235582">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[One of about four books that really explains how politics works in America, in this case, in Chicago during the twentieth century.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[At least while he was mayor, while corrupt, the city operated in the black.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Definitely one person's viewpoint on Daley, but an important one.  Gave me a great perspective on Chicago politics in the 20th century.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A total classic for anyone interested in Chicago history.  Royko is certainly not trying to be impartial, as he exposes the original Daley and his hand in the corruption and patronage that has plagued this city for many years.  <br/><br/>Found it quite entertaining to read in light of all the rece...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28471533">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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