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Dirty Waters
- Confessions of Chicago's Last Harbor Boss
Engelsk Paperback

Dirty Waters

- Confessions of Chicago's Last Harbor Boss
Engelsk Paperback

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A wry, no-holds-barred memoir of Nelson’s time controlling some of Chicago's most beautiful spots while facing some of its ugliest traditions. In 1987, the city of Chicago hired a former radical college chaplain to clean up rampant corruption on the waterfront. R. J. Nelson thought he was used to the darker side of the law—he had been followed by federal agents and wiretapped due to his antiwar stances in the sixties—but nothing could prepare him for the wretched bog that constituted the world of a Harbor Boss. Dirty Waters is the wry, no-holds-barred memoir of Nelson’s time controlling some of the city’s most beautiful spots while facing some of its ugliest traditions. Nelson takes us through Chicago's beloved “blue spaces” and deep into the city’s political morass, revealing the different moralities underlining three mayoral administrations and navigating the gritty mechanisms of the city’s political machine. Ultimately, Dirty Waters is a tale of morality, of what it takes to be a force for good in the world and what struggles come from trying to stay ethically afloat in a sea of corruption.   
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
304
ISBN-13:
9780226826929
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0226826929
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Udg. Dato:
19 feb 2023
Længde:
20mm
Bredde:
229mm
Højde:
151mm
Forlag:
The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato:
19 feb 2023
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