Still Burning: Half a Century of Chicago, from the Streets to the Corridors of Power; A Memoir (Copy)

In this lively and insightful memoir Jeremiah Joyce recounts a wide-ranging career that in many way tracks the history of Chicago over the last half century. During the late sixties and early seventies his jobs took him from tense urban classrooms to street encounters as a member of the Chicago Police Department's Gang Intelligence Unit. While many neighborhoods in American cities turned from white to Black almost overnight Joyce as alderman for the 19th Ward on the Southwest Side fought to...