I got this book hoping for somthing akin to Caro's biographies of Moses and LBJ, and was very disappointed. The authors are more concerned with segregated housing in Chicago, and the civil rights movement - they appear to make no effort to understand or explain Daley the person or what made him tick. Just page after boring page on the unfairness of segregated housing and how racist Daley was. This could use some "truth in packaging" - I would not have bought and read a book on the struggle for "fair housing" and civil rights in Chicago, and it needs a label "WARNING - Authors despise Irish Catholics and smugly look down on them". I agree that, while Royko's bio of Daley is not the efinitive one, it is at least readable and entertaining compared to this diatribe.