| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 105.3

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Canada and the United States

Douglas Bukowski. Big Bill Thompson, Chicago, and the Politics of Image. Champaign: University of Illinois Press. 1998. Pp. 273. Cloth $49.95 paper $21.95.

William Hale "Big Bill" Thompson served three terms as the last Republican ever elected mayor of Chicago (1915–1923 and 1927–1931). Thompson was a former "cowboy" rancher, "wildwest" showman, athlete, and minor political figure in Chicago before his 1915 election, hardly the credentials that one might expect for the mayor of the nation's second largest city. In this political biography, Douglas Bukowski augues that the man and his tenure can best be understood in the context of industrial, immigrant Chicago's raw and brawling past history, which continued to shape its politics even as the city matured economically and socially. According to Bukowski, Thompson parlayed his vision of a city engaged in class, ethnic, and race warfare into three mayoral terms characterized by the lack of a coherent political agenda for the city, a willingness to switch sides on any issue when it suited his purpose, and blatant appeals to ethnic or race consciousness. . . .

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