Boss

A timely, unflinching portrait of the last of the backroom Caesars. Richard J. Daley made such an indelible mark on Chicago that at his death in 1976, one wag called him Mayor for Life. This witty and insightful book by Chicago Tribune columnist Mike Royko brings to life the most powerful political figure of his time, who truly created the word machine and whose laissez-faire policy toward corruption earned him the epithet kingmaker. The man, the machine, the city--Royko reveals all with keen insight and unwavering honesty.