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Grafters and Goo-Goos: Corruption and Reform in Chicago, 1833-2003

Grafters and Goo-Goos: Corruption and Reform in Chicago, 1833-2003. By James L. Merriner (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2004. Pp. xix, 302. Illustrations, index. $29.50).

In this lively narrative history, journalist James L. Merriner, also author of a biography of former Congressman Dan Rostenkowski, argues that corruption and reform have long been strangely interdependent in Chicago politics. Some Chicago politicians simultaneously played the roles of "boss" and "reformer." Reformers made morally questionable compromises with urban bosses or bent the rules to bring them down. Reforms often created new opportunities for corruption. Merriner also emphasizes how battles over ...

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