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HIMSELF! THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MAYOR RICHARD J. DALEY by Eugene Kennedy Viking; 288 pages...
...urban malaise deepened in the late '60s, a revisionist theory about the governance of American cities took shape. It dictated that machine politics is a better system than the progressivism preached by editorial writers, professors and other muzzy do-gooders. Proponents would offer Chicago as ruled by Richard Daley-"the city that works" -as exhibit...
Certainly Chicago has withstood the termite trends better than New York, the ancient source of its inferiority complex. and such closer rivals as Detroit and Cleveland. And certainly Daley, who dominated the city's political back rooms and front parlors, must get credit. His death 1 5 months ago after almost 22 years as mayorissimo was truly a national event...
...Daley climbed from night-school striver to feared duke is the lesser part of Eugene Kennedy's Himself! Kennedy is more interested in his subject's mentality and soul and in political hierarchy. For this exploration the author is aptly qualified: he was a Catholic priest for 22 years, still serves as a psychology professor at Loyola University of Chicago, and has a sense of the Irish American tribe that only genes can provide...
Kennedy does not have to probe very deeply to find in Daley the spirit of an Irish warrior chieftain. Gaelic legend has a mother feeding the weaning morsel to such an infant with the tip of his father's sword: no better means to teach the proper ways of life and death. To Daley, politics was unremitting combat. Once attained, power could not be shared because sharing would tempt others to become chieftains...