by Adam Cohen, Elizabeth Taylor · Back Bay Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780316834896
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«American Pharaoh» is the biography of Richard J. Daley, by Adam Cohen and Elizabeth Taylor, published by Back Bay Books in paperback (614 pages, in English).
Biography of Richard J. Daley, mayor of Chicago from 1955 to 1976, and of the political machine that controlled more than a million votes. Cohen and Taylor trace his rise from an Irish neighbourhood, his influence on the Kennedy and Johnson elections, the urban transformation of Chicago, and the policies that accentuated racial segregation.
The book draws on unpublished material and interviews with Daley's contemporaries, and received the Society of Midland Authors award in 2001 in the Biography category.
For readers interested in the political history of the United States, municipal power, and twentieth-century electoral machines.
Elizabeth Taylor was an English novelist and short-story writer. Kingsley Amis described her as "one of the best English novelists born in this century". Antonia Fraser called her "one of the most underrated writers of the 20th century", while Hilary Mantel said she was "deft, accomplished and somewhat underrated". Her 1971 novel Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont was shortlisted for The Booker Prize.
