American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley: His Battle for Chicago and the Nation

Now in paperback comes the story of Richard J. Daley, the last of the big city bosses, the patriarch of a political dynasty, and a major national figure in American urban politics. It is the story of his rise from the working-class Irish neighborhood of his childhood to his role as one of the most important figures in 20th-century American politics.