The Chairman: A Novel of Big City Politics

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An award-winning short story writer, he is also the author of an eclectic blog: He lives in Naperville, Illinois, with his wife, Susan, and their three children. Would you like to tell us about a lower price?

If you are a seller for this product, would you like to suggest updates through seller support? Learn more about Amazon Prime. Machine politics is a tough business, filled with people who put far more value on power and money than on honor, friendship, or the lives of those who challenge them.

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Atop this maelstrom sits Chairman Eamon DeValera Collins, formerly the undisputed boss of the Irish-Catholic Fifteenth Ward and now the man who controls the entire city. In this position, he finds himself surrounded by opportunists, amateurs, criminals, thieves, and cold-blooded killers. Those he can trust are few and far between, and they are far outnumbered those who would attempt to use their connection to him to eliminate their enemies and line their own pockets.

While only one former ally is sufficiently tough-or crazy-enough to directly challenge his leadership, the Chairman will stop at nothing to put down any challenger. Quinn takes the reader on a sometimes dark, but always thought-provoking, tour of the ins and outs of a political machine.

It's a brutal examination of the minds of men and women who will sacrifice anything or anyone for a chance at power. Read more Read less. Prime Book Box for Kids. About the Author Mark M.

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Trafford Publishing August 30, Language: Related Video Shorts 0 Upload your video. Try the Kindle edition and experience these great reading features: Share your thoughts with other customers. Write a customer review. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. From one former alter boy to another. Purchased the book over a week ago and brought it up north with me to read and enjoy.


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The timing could not be better and the found memeories of the beginning of grammer school, blurried eyed, as the our first Civic class would begin: If you don't pay more attention, you'll never remember enough Civics to get you out of 8th grade, let alone enough to help you in business! Civics, as I remember it, is the rights and duties of citizenship.


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Quinn so perfectly points out, the study of government with attention to the role of citizens. Civics refers to educating the citizens and what an education lessson you have given us once again Mr. I strongly recomend that Rahm Emanuel read this book plus your first book because I'm not sure if he could find the 8th Ward but as Mr.

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Quinn might put it, I digress. Another great understanding of how our big city government really works. The world needs more people like you who bring back Civics because unfortunately the younger generation only knows it is made by Honda. Enjoy the book as I have.

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I purchased the Chairman's Challenge last week on Amazon and have not been able to put it down. The story's narrator is a year-old writer who works as a fact checker for a highbrow magazine for which he had once hoped to write. By night, he is a cocaine -using party-goer seeking to lose himself in the hedonism of the s yuppie party scene, often going to a nightclub called Heartbreak. His wife, Amanda, recently left him, and he copes with this by pretending nothing happened and telling no one that she is gone. The two had met in Kansas City; the narrator moves with her to New York City, where she begins a modeling career that quickly takes off.

After flying out to Paris for Fashion Week, she calls the narrator to inform him that she is leaving him for another man and to pursue her career.

The Chairman's Challenge: A Continuing Novel of Big City Politics

Initially hopeful that she will return someday, the narrator eventually resorts to searching for her at a fashion event, publicly humiliating himself while failing to garner more attention from her than a brief look. He obsesses over every item she owned in his apartment, every modeling photo and every club she visited, even repeatedly visiting a mannequin based on her. His partying and his personal troubles begin to affect his work. He eventually comes to realize Amanda's superficiality, becoming both disillusioned with her and the materialistic culture of New York in general.

He reveals that the true reason for his spiral downwards was his mother's death, which actually took place a year ago. He realizes that he had married Amanda because he thought it would make his mother happy.