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Book SynopsisA revised edition of the classic story of race and power, set in Chicago during the 1980s, when this most political of cities elected its first black mayor
Trade ReviewPraise for the First Edition: "Colorfully, intimately, Fire on the Prairie shames and instructs as it entertains ...a civic conversation about race and power." The Washington Post Book World
Table of ContentsForeword to the Revised Edition by Clarence Page Introduction to the Revised Edition by Larry Bennett - Forging Barack Obama: Harold Washington, Chicago, and the Politics of Race Acknowledgments Prologue BOOK I A Racial Thing, 1983 1 A Cry in the Wind 2 The Conspirators 3 The Chosen 4 The Catalyst 5 The Jesse Jackson Factor 6 The Family Business 7 The Liberal Apology 8 A Tower of Babble 9 A Racial Thing 10 Positively Antebellum 11 A City Divided BOOK II Council Wars, 1983-1986 12 The Biggest Bully in the Bar 13 Balancing Acts 14 Beirut on the Lake 15 Black Reform, White Reform 16 The Chicago Experiment 17 A Midterm Blunder 18 The Continuing Saga of Clarence McClain BOOK III Something Less Than Hate, 1986-1987 19 The Reckoning 20 Any White Will Do 21 Thy Kingdom at Hand 22 The Empire Strikes Back Note on Sources Index
