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...wards, piling up 432,224 votes in the unofficial count to 217,764 for his chief opponent, Independent Democrat William Singer, who was handicapped by his youth (34) and inexperience. Farther behind were black State Senator Richard Newhouse with 58,548 votes and former State's Attorney Edward Hanrahan with 37,034. None of the challengers had the stature of a giant killer, and in Chicago Dick Daley rates as a giant...
...been criticized for influencing the placement of millions of dollars' worth of city insurance with a firm that employed one of his sons. Partly as a result of these blows, three opponents are running against him in the primary: Singer, former State Attorney Edward Hanrahan and black State Senator Richard Newhouse...
...Black Panther raid may have begun the dismantling of the Daley machine. Michael J. Arlen largely ignores the complex political consequences of the case in his little book on Hanrahan's trial. But An American Verdict is a very effective novelistic piece of reporting in which the trial becomes a symbol of the modern American city...
Arlen deftly interweaves episodes in the Hanrahan trial with scenes showing the inner workings of the city. His descriptive mistakes show some unfamiliarity with the details of Chicago life, but his overall analysis is remarkably perceptive. Arlen can start with a little episode or a single phrase and eventually sum up an attitude of the police or an ethnic group or even the changing moods which strike a whole city...
...make brash and revealing statements which less entrenched politicians in other cities might phrase more delicately. Arlen capitalizes on this characteristic. With a single quotation, for example, he sums up the attitude of city officials across the country toward police excess. "Eddie overplayed it," he quotes one of Hanrahan's friends as saying. "He never figured that Panther raid would blow...