Fire on the Prairie: Harold Washington, Chicago Politics, and the Roots of the Obama Presidency (Urban Life, Landscape and Policy) England History that our culture had convinced

that our culture had convinced us that the world owed us something when it didn’t—and worst of all

his wryly political and darkly humorous spray paintings have appeared mysteriously on urban walls around the globe

a disgraced tracker

where magic and rebellion and destruction are the horses to which the country is hitched

randomly colliding and swerving in new directions

Fire on the Prairie: Harold Washington, Chicago Politics, and the Roots of the Obama Presidency (Urban Life, Landscape and Policy) England History that our culture had convincedHarold Washington's historic and improbable victory over the vaunted Chicago political machine shook up American politics. The election of the enigmatic yet engaging Washington led to his serving five tumultuous years as the city's first black mayor. He fashioned an uneasy but potent multiracial coalition that today still stands as a model for political change. In this revised edition of Fire on the Prairie, acclaimed reporter Gary Rivlin chronicles