Adam Cohen

American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley - His Battle for Chicago and the Nation (2001)

Richard Daley was an only child, a rarity in his Irish Catholic neighborhood in the early 1900s. Apparently he was the only kid in the neighborhood who owned pajamas. One neighbor described the Daleys as the kind of people who had fruit in the house even if nobody was sick.This book taught me abo...