{"product_id":"fire-on-the-prairie-9781439904923","title":"Fire on the Prairie","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword 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","brand":"Temple University Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49529945981271,"sku":"9781439904923","price":34.14,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781439904923.jpg?v=1731877472","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/fire-on-the-prairie-9781439904923","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}