Title: Not worth it
Product review: This biography is shoddily reasearched, loosely referenced and glaringly biased. Mr. Cohen and Ms. Taylor have rummaged through the Tribune, the Times and other people's versions of the story in effort to present a "definitive" biography, yet fall well short of the mark. This is not a biography as much as it is an attempt at a vindication of short-term battles that were lost by liberals in post-WWII America.Of course Mayor Daley was a big time politcal Boss who didn't much care for folks different than him, unless he could snag their vote. But you know, Mike Royko already wrote that book 30 years ago. There's nothing new or revealing in this rehash whose only impressive feature is it's length, and that becomes a chore as two shortsighted, copy-inch driven journalists incoherently weave anectdotes together from newspaper clippings and other people's rehashes in secondary sources.
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