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3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Fabulous story reveals insight into urban politics Nov 02, 2009
By M. Raffles
This fascinating historic novel weaves an gripping story line through an insightful glimpse at urban politics over the past 30 years. The author adeptly takes the reader into the backrooms where deals are really made, and shows how those deals are then spun in the media. Clearly, Mr. Quinn has a terrific grasp of how "Machine" politics work at all levels today, as well how things have developed through the recent decades. I'm looking forward to his next work!
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Sweet home Chicago Nov 20, 2009
By Martin A. Fernholz
Excellent book about BIG city polititians, the machine, and how things get done. It's all about who you know and not so much about what you know. Mr. Quinn cuts right to the chase and gives one the insight of how one makes things happen and what it takes. My old Civics teacher, Sr. Marie Timothy, might not agree with Mr. Quinn but he is spot on with the social science of dealing with the rights and duties of our public servants. Good job Mr. Quinn. Bing back Civics to our school children.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
The Way Things Were, or Are Nov 19, 2009
By Seamus James
"Jim"
I thought it was a good read, the characters were interesting and the story moved well.
I don't know if a old school pol would insist on being called "Chairman" by all those except
the very closest to him, but who knows. I think much of the story still rings true today.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
An excellent, multilevel read Nov 04, 2009
By Joey G
"Joey G"
This is an awfully good glimpse into the political machine: the people who run (and profit by) it; the footsoldiers who make it work (and profit by it); the business men who use it (and profit by it); the shakedown artist anxious to play the game (and proift by it); and the reformers (who just may get steamrolled by it). Against this masterful setting, Quinn tells the age-old story of a man at the peak of his powers trying to hang on in a changing world against the inevitable assaults from within and outside his organization. A must read for political junkies, and just a plain old great read for the rest of us!
Chicago Politics -- An anachronism that still functions Jun 16, 2011
By Gordon S. Black
"Pollster"
Chicago politics are an anachronism; a throw-back to the way politics was practiced in almost every large city in the Eastern two-thirds of the United States during the second half of the Nineteenth Century and well into the first half of the Twentieth Century. When I was a young political scientist, teaching about politics, there were really only two political machines left - Chicago under Richard Daley and Albany, New York, under Erastus Corning, 2nd, who served as Mayor from 1942 until his death in 1983. In The Chairman, which I think is the single best book about state and local politics since Robert Penn Warren's, All the King's Men, Mark Quinn captures the mix of ethnic loyalties, political patronage, political intrigue, graft and corruption that were the basis for all machine politics, up to the modern era. This is a "must read" for anyone who enjoys books about politics - well written, with fascinating detail and intriguing characters, and a story that holds the reader from the first page to the last.
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