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Article: WHY BELLOW SUPPORTS A DALEY IN CHICAGO
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 4, 1989
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CHICAGO - It was the "Cokely incident," Saul Bellow said
yesterday, that pulled him from the rarefied circles of Nobel
laureates in literature to the street scuffles of Chicago politics
this year.
Bellow, who has been politically unaligned for most of his
life, is openly endorsing Richard M. Daley in his race for mayor of
Chicago today, and Bellow's involvement in the Daley campaign is a
symbol of the conflict that grips Chicago.
Bellow, who is Jewish, could be characterized as a liberal,
although he does not typecast himself. He has even been critical in
his novels of the Chicago political machine that Daley's father,
the late Mayor Richard J. Daley, controlled for more than two ...