I'm currently reading American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J Daley - his battle for Chicago and the nation by Adam Cohen and Elizabeth Taylor right now and it is absolutely incredible.I am only 280 pages in (a few months into Daley's second term), and already well-worth the purchase.
I've pulled out a few quotes that I think are interesting or thought provoking (and will continue to do so) here. A few of the most interesting:
“Look at the Lord’s Disciples,” Daley would later say in response to a charge of corruption in City Hall. “One denied Him, one doubted Him, one betrayed Him. If our Lord couldn’t have perfection, how are you going to have it in city government?”
In April 1917, the Chicago Real Estate Board met and — concerned about what officials described as the “invasion of white residence districts by the Negroes” — appointed a Special Committee on Negro Housing to make recommendations. On this committee’s recommendation, the board adopted a policy of block-by-block racial segregation, carefully controlled so that “each block shall be filled solidly and . . . further expansion shall be confined to contiguous blocks.” Three years later, the board took the further step of voting unanimously to punish by “immediate expulsion” any member...
“Make no little plans,” Burnham, a prominent architect and principal designer of the 1893 Columbian Exposition, advised. “They have no magic to stir men’s blood.”
Anyone else already read this? Anyone else currently reading?
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