Winner of TWO Awards:
Society of Midland Authors 2009-2010 Biography Winner
&
Award of Excellence from the Illinois State Historical Society
The Gambler King of Clark Street: Michael
C. McDonald and the Rise of the Chicago's Democratic
Machine
Southern Illinois University Press
(Elmer H Johnson & Carol Holmes
Johnson Series in Criminology)
Hardcover
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Rich's lifelong fascination with Michael C. McDonald, Chicago's wily 19th Century political boss, roué, and roguish gambler, inspired the new book, published in May, 2009.
The McDonald story, a first-ever biography
about this enigmatic but mostly forgotten gambler
who built the foundation of the city's enduring,
and eternally corrupt Democratic Machine is
still in power after 120 years.
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