Grafters and Goo Goos

This title pinpoints the interplay between corrupt politicos and ardent reformers. "Grafters and Goo Goos: Corruption and Reform in Chicago" unfolds the city's notorious history of corruption and the countervailing reform struggles that largely failed to clean it up. More than a regional history of [...]
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This title pinpoints the interplay between corrupt politicos and ardent reformers. "Grafters and Goo Goos: Corruption and Reform in Chicago" unfolds the city's notorious history of corruption and the countervailing reform struggles that largely failed to clean it up. More than a regional history of crime in politics, this wide-ranging account of governmental malfeasances traces ongoing public corruption and reform to its nineteenth-century democratic roots.