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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Unfortunately, at this time this exhibition catalog is the best representation available of the now-forgotten but brilliant FrancoAmerican surrealist. Although the book was state-of-the-art at that time, almost all of the illustrations are black-and-white, which is mostly frustrating at a time when nearly full-color has been the industry standard for two decades. Also, the color reproductions are a little washed-out. The art, after an uninteresting period of youthful primitivism, is very striking and innovative. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
"Mayor Richard M. Daley dropped the bomb at a routine news conference at City Hall on Tuesday. With no prelude or fanfare, Mr. Daley announced that he would not seek re-election when his term expires next year. 'Simply put, it's time, ' he said.""New York Times, September 7, 2010" With those four words, an era ended. After twenty-two years, the longest-serving and most powerful mayor in the history of Chicago and, arguably, America stepped down, leaving behind a city that was utterly transformed, and a complicated legacy we are only beginning to evaluate. In"First Son," Keith Koeneman chronicles the sometimes Shakespearean, sometimes Machiavellian life of an American political legend. Making deft use of unprecedented access to key players in the Daley administration, as well as Chicago's business and cultural leaders, Koeneman draws on more than one hundred interviews to tell an up-close, insider story of political triumph and personal evolution. With Koeneman as our guide, we follow young Daley from his beginnings as an average Bridgeport kid thought to lack his father's talent and charisma to his unlikely transformation into an iron-fisted leader. Daley not only escaped the giant shadow of his father but also transformed Chicago from a gritty, post-industrial Midwestern capital into a beautiful, sophisticated global city widely recognized as a model for innovative metropolises throughout the world. But in spite of his many accomplishments, Richard M. Daley's record is far from flawless."First Son"sets the dramatic improvement of certain parts of the city against the persistent realities of crime, financial stress, failing public housing, and dysfunctional schools. And it reveals that while in many ways Daley broke with the machine politics of his father, he continued to reward loyalty with favors, use the resources of city government to overwhelm opponents, and tolerate political corruption. A nuanced portrait of a complex man, "First Son"shows Daley to be sensitive yet tough, impatient yet persistent, a street-smart fighter and detail-driven policy expert who not only ran Chicago, but"was"Chicago. " Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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