Product Description: Historians have pointed to John F. Kennedy’s 1960 campaign as the first time a presidential candidate relied extensively on public opinion polls. Since then, polling has come to define American politics, and is perhaps most clearly embodied in Bill Clinton, the most poll-driven president in history...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The University of Illinois was founded in 1867 and expanded into Chicago in the 1890s. Through time, demands for the growth of the urban campus were answered. Under the leadership of Mayor Richard J.Daley, the Circle Campus was created and located in 1965 on the Near West Side of Chicago in the historic Hull-House neighborhood...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The American Mayor offers a unique ranking of the nation's big-city mayors by expert scholars. Although the mayoralty is one of the most important political executive offices, it has escaped the kind of evaluations by which scholars have ranked American presidents...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Describes the social structure, values, and lifestyles of Chicago ethnic groups, discusses America's cultural pluralism, and offers profiles of individuals who played an important part in Chicago's history.

Presents the life and political career of Harold Washington, the first black mayor of Chicago

A collection of essays examine the terms of Chicago mayors, assess their accomplishments and weaknesses, and analyze the way they used the power of their office.

Discusses the issues in the 1983 Chicago mayoral primary and election and examines the reasons for the victory of Harold Washington

Product Description: "a good source of information as well as an interesting browsing item. It should be useful in high school, college, university, and public libraries." Reference Books Bulletin

Product Description: This is a political biography of Hazen S. Pingree, Mayor of Detroit from 1890-1897, who established the first significant social reform administration of the time.