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BOSS: RICHARD J. DALEY OF CHICAGO by Mike Royko. 215 pages. Dutton...
Royko is a newspaperman, a columnist and commentator for the Chicago Daily News. Though his book is essentially a hatchet job, released more or less to coincide with the campaign for last week's mayoralty election in Chicago, Royko sees Mayor Richard Daley as an inevitable product of the Chicago environment. The mayor was born into a workingman's family in Bridgeport, an Irish neighborhood in that South Side region known, without comment, as Back of the Yards. He was born to membership in the Hamburgs, an athletic club whose members took their exercise by beating the bejesus...
Placating the Whites. The people of Chicago have never heard his honor treated so roughly. "Daley the builder?" queries Friedman. "No, Daley the destroyer. Daley the manager? No, Daley the bungler." From storefront to street corner, he declares in his low-key voice: "We're going to sweep that aging, corrupt, manipulating politician out of city hall...
...Daley quickly denounced the plan, thereby placating blue-collar whites who were seething over the prospect of low-income (i.e., black) housing in their neighborhoods. The plan was at fault, said the mayor, for failing to locate some of the projects in the suburbs. Crying "race politics," Friedman charged that Daley had "suppressed" the part of the authority's report that called for 500 suburban housing sites...
...Daley's Darlin's. Nobody predicts that Friedman will defeat Daley for a fifth four-year term next week. But he has waged a more vigorous mayoralty campaign than Chicagoans have seen in many a year, and there are indications that even the 69-year-old Daley is beginning to take notice...