Chicago and Illinois Politics:
Fiction and Nonfiction Titles

Fiction:

Tears of the Dragon, Holly Baxter
A Final Judgment: A Ron Shade Novel,* Michael A. Black
White Night: A Novel of the Dresden Files,* Jim Butcher
The Junkyard Dog,* R. Wright Campbell
Fort Dearborn, Jerry Crimmins
Every Secret Crime,* Doug M. Cummings
Hard Bargain: A Cat Marsala Mystery,* Barbara D’Amato
Haymarket, Martin Duberman
Skullduggery, Sylvia Foti
Columbus Slaughters Braves, Mark Friedman
An Eye for Murder,* Libby Fischer Hellmann
Criminal Element,* Hugh Holton
The Criminalist, Eugene Izzi
Days of Rage,* Kris Nelscott
Blood Shot,* Sara Paretsky
Homicide 69, Sam Reaves
Windy City: A Novel of Politics, Scott Simon
Coffee Will Make You Black, April Sinclair
The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
A Beer at the Bawdy House,* David J. Walker
Record Palace, Susan Wheeler
The Principal Cause of Death,* Mark Richard Zubro

*part of a series

Nonfiction:

Jim Crow Nostalgia: Reconstructing Race in Bronzeville, Michelle R. Boyd  305.8009773 BOY

Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City, Mary Pattillo  305.896 PAT

Sez Who? Sez Me, Mike Royko  306.0973 ROY

The Sexual Organization of the City Edward O. Laumann, ed.  306.7 SEX

Building Chicago: Suburban Developers & the Creation of a Divided Metropolis, Ann Durkin Keating  307.764 KEA

Happy Days Are Here Again: The 1932 Democratic Convention, the Emergence of FDR--And How America Was Changed Forever, Steve Neal  324 NEA

When the Democrats Ruled DuPage, Leone Schmidt  324.277324 SCH

The Outfit: The Role of Chicago's Underworld in the Shaping of Modern America, Gus Russo  364.106 RUS

My Fall from Grace: City Hall to Prison Walls, James J. Laski  364.1323 LAS

Lincoln And Douglas : The Debates That Defined America, Allen C. Guelzo  973.68 GUE

One Man Great Enough: Abraham Lincoln's Road to Civil War, John C. Waugh  973.7092 WAU

Honor's Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln, Douglas L. Wilson  973.7092 WIL

Rebels at Rock Island: The Story of a Civil War Prison, Benton McAdams  973.772 MCA

Building for the Centuries: Illinois, 1865 to 1898, John H. Keiser  977.304 KEI

Mostly Good and Competent Men, Robert P. Howard  977.3040922 HOW

Dan Walker: The Glory and the Tragedy, Taylor Pensoneau  977.3043 PEN

Meeting the Challenge: The Edgar Administration, 1991-1999, Tom Schafer  977.3043 SCH

The Maverick and the Machine: Governor Dan Walker Tells His Story, Daniel Walker  977.3043092 WAL

Lords of the Last Machine: The Story of Politics in Chicago, Bill Granger  977.311 GRA

Here's The Deal: The Buying And Selling of a Great American City, Ross Miller  977.311 MIL

Clout: Mayor Daley and His City, Len O’Connor  977.311 OCO

The Mayors: The Chicago Political Tradition, Paul M. Green, ed.  977.31100922 MAY

Daley: Power and Presidential Politics, F. Richard Ciccone  977.31104 CIC

Challenging the Daley Machine: A Chicago Alderman's Memoir, Leon Mathis Despres  977.311043 DES

Chicago '68, David Farber  977.311043 FAR

Fire on the Prairie: Chicago's Harold Washington and the Politics of Race, Gary Rivlin  977.311043092 RIV

Richard J. Daley: Politics, Race, and the Governing of Chicago, Roger Biles  B DALEY

American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley: His Battle for Chicago and the Nation, Adam Cohen  B DALEY

Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago, Mike Royko  B DALEY

Speaker: Lessons from Forty Years in Coaching and Politics, Dennis Hastert  B HASTERT

Barack Obama: A Biography, Joann F. Price  B OBAMA

Sarge: The Life and Times of Sargent Shriver, Scott Stossel  B SHRIVER

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