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In The Chairman A Novel of Big City Politics, award-winning short fiction writer and journalist Mark M. Quinn offers a character driven plot that shows the thin line between good and evil in a big city ward boss. In a way that few authors can, Quinn offers a convincing portrait of how complicated and mercurial the world of ward politics is and how, by definition, a public official is torn by conflicting motivations. Chairman Eamon DeValera Collins is a practitioner of raw, devious politics. Readers will split their time between condemning and cheering this deliciously nefarious while wholly sympathetic character. As a caricature of all that big city politics achieves and represents, this novel is a spellbinding look into the annals of America’s colorful 20th century big city politics. While the urban political machine may not yet have died away completely, its swansong is composed of hilarity, tragedy, and desperation, which Quinn pitch-perfectly records.
The Chairman A Novel of Big City Politics edition by Mark M Quinn Politics Social Sciences eBooks
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.Product details
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The Chairman A Novel of Big City Politics edition by Mark M Quinn Politics Social Sciences eBooks Reviews
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!
Having grown up in the 37th Ward in Chicago, I had a general idea of how the Machine worked. Mark Quinn has educated me much more on it. I enjoyed the book very much finding it an easy and a compelling story. On the other hand, it shows that the past, present and potentially future uses (abuses) of the Chicago Political Machine are alive and well. The Shackman Decree which was to end patronage in Chicago just called on the insiders to adjust their playbook.
Mike Royko would be proud of Quinn's Book. I would imagine the likes of John Kass, Andy Shaw and so many other Chicago Observers of local politics have and will find this work of fiction to possess a considerable amount of nonfiction.
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.
The Chairman is a well-written and insightful story of back room deals amid machine politics. One major question the book poses is "Whom can you trust?" If you are in the organization, watch your back. Is it the last of the big time political machines?
An engaging novel offering insight into the underbelly of urban politics. Mr. Quinn has done a great job of shedding light on the back-room deal making among power brokers which isn't far from reality. He exposes how many politicians are acting primarily to fulfill their own personal objectives under guise of altruism. Mr. Quinn also shows us that politics is like making sausage (something we know alot about in Chicago); the process "ain't pretty", but it's the final product that we like. Looking forward to the sequel!
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.
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!
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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