Author: James L. Merriner MA
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Keywords: reform, chicago, corruption, goos, goo, grafters
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2008-07-21
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0809328747
ISBN-13: 9780809328741

This title pinpoints the interplay between corrupt politicos and ardent reformers. "Grafters and Goo Goos: Corruption and Reform in Chicago" unfolds the city’s notorious history of corruption and the countervailing reform struggles that largely failed to clean it up. More than a regional history of crime in politics, this wide-ranging account of governmental malfeasances traces ongoing public corruption and reform to its nineteenth-century democratic roots.

Authors:Bob Edwards, Martin James, James Martin,
Publisher: Brindle & Glass Publishing
Keywords: unabashed, grafters, guzzlers, highball, freaks, irresponsible
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2001-08-31
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0973248157
ISBN-13: 9780973248159

Bob Edwards, the Great White North’s equivalent to H. L. Mencken, remains a singular figure in Canadian journalism. His newspapers, published in Wetaskiwin, Leduc, High River, Strathcona, Winnipeg, Port Arthur, and most famously Calgary, skewered politics, society, and business leaders with a fearlessness and outrageousness rarely seen then, now, or in between.As editor James Martin points out in his illuminating introduction, Bob Edwards seems more modern the farther back in history he recedes; he was the granddaddy of Gonzo Journalism à la Hunter S. Thompson, a freewheeling cultural cri