An important and provocative book that chronicles the history of black empowerment in the city of Chicago and the sumultaneous defeat of the last great urban political machine. The dramatic nature of events that culminated in Washington's victory are carefully unfolded by Kleppner so that this political history reads like an exciting novel.(Political Science Quarterly) A significant contribution to the study of the growth of black urban political power in recent decades.(New York Times Book Review)

• Table of Contents1. Politics Chicago Style: The Turning Point 2. Population Diversity and Political Change, 1870–1970 3. Racial Change and Group Conflict 4. Race, Ethnicity, and Electoral Politics: The Daley Years, 1955–1976 5. Race, Ethnicity, and Electoral Politics: From Bilandic to Byrne, 1976–1982 6. The Politics of Race: The Democratic Mayoral Primary, 1983 7. Race War Chicago Style: The Election of a Mayor, 1983 8. Beyond Chicago and April 1983 Notes Index

An important and provocative book that chronicles the history of black empowerment in the city of Chicago and the sumultaneous defeat of the last great urban political machine. The dramatic nature of events that culminated in Washington's victory are carefully unfolded by Kleppner so that this political history reads like an exciting novel.(Political Science Quarterly) A significant contribution to the study of the growth of black urban political power in recent decades.(New York Times Book Review)

• Table of Contents1. Politics Chicago Style: The Turning Point 2. Population Diversity and Political Change, 1870–1970 3. Racial Change and Group Conflict 4. Race, Ethnicity, and Electoral Politics: The Daley Years, 1955–1976 5. Race, Ethnicity, and Electoral Politics: From Bilandic to Byrne, 1976–1982 6. The Politics of Race: The Democratic Mayoral Primary, 1983 7. Race War Chicago Style: The Election of a Mayor, 1983 8. Beyond Chicago and April 1983 Notes Index

An important and provocative book that chronicles the history of black empowerment in the city of Chicago and the sumultaneous defeat of the last great urban political machine. The dramatic nature of events that culminated in Washington's victory are carefully unfolded by Kleppner so that this political history reads like an exciting novel.(Political Science Quarterly) A significant contribution to the study of the growth of black urban political power in recent decades.(New York Times Book Review)

• Table of Contents1. Politics Chicago Style: The Turning Point 2. Population Diversity and Political Change, 1870–1970 3. Racial Change and Group Conflict 4. Race, Ethnicity, and Electoral Politics: The Daley Years, 1955–1976 5. Race, Ethnicity, and Electoral Politics: From Bilandic to Byrne, 1976–1982 6. The Politics of Race: The Democratic Mayoral Primary, 1983 7. Race War Chicago Style: The Election of a Mayor, 1983 8. Beyond Chicago and April 1983 Notes Index