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- Title The Mirage
- Author Zay N. Smith
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 255
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Random House (NY), New York
- Date 1979
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780394503684 / 0394503686
- Library of Congress subjects Political corruption - Illinois - Chicago
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 79004760
- Dewey Decimal Code 320.977
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The Mirage
by Zay N. Smith
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The Mirage
by Zay N. Smith and Pamela Zekman
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Random House, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. First edition (stated). Hardcover. 255 pp. Illustrated with photos. Fine but with the small Randon House red stamp bottom edge of the text block. In very good dust jacket. Scarce. The inticate story of how the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper decided to expose corruption and bribery in Chicago city government by opening its own dive-bar establishment on the North Side ("The Mirage") and staffing it with undercover reporters. The book's authors and bar's "managers", Zay N. Smith ("Norty The Bartender") and Pamela Zekman (Pam The Barmaid"), didn't have to look for corruption--it found them in the form of City inspectors examining the bar's flagrant violations of health, fire, and safethy standards, who were always willing to "work things out unofficially" for a small fee; firemen who sat in the bar selling tickets to golf tournaments when they should have been on duty; accountants who openly bragged of their ability to skim up to 70% of the…
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The Mirage
by Smith, Zay N. Zekman, Pamela
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US: Random House, 1979. Random House 1979 First Edition Stated New/Fine DJ Very Fine. Includes photo illustrated section.. First Edition Stated. Hardcover. New/Fine DJ.
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