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Excerpts from Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago by Mike Royko, copyright © 1971 by Mike
Royko. Used by permission of Dutton, a division of Penguin Putnam Inc. The column dated
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data
Ciccone, F. Richard.
Royko: a life in print / by F. Richard Ciccone.
p. cm.
ISBN I-891620-51-7 (HB)
I. Royko, Mike, 1932-1997. 2. Journalists—United States—Biography.
3. Chicago (Ill.)—Biography. I. Title.
PN4874.R744 C53 2001
070.92—dc2I
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00-054779
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