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A loyal partisan and highly principled public official whose career overlapped with those of many legends of Illinois politics-including Mayor Richard J. Daley, Governor James Thompson, and Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan-Democrat Philip J. Rock served twenty-two years in the Illinois Senate. Fourteen of those years were spent as senate president, the longest tenure anyone has served in that position. This nuanced political biography, which draws on dozens of...
About the Author
Philip J. Rock served as Illinois senate president for fourteen years. He now practices law in Chicago.
Ed Wojcicki teaches in the public administration program at the University of Illinois-Springfield. The former publisher of Illinois Issues, he also has been a staff writer and columnist for many magazines and newspapers. He is the author ofA Crisis of Hope in the Modern World.
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“There is wit and wisdom in this story. And the reader is presented with the remarkable making of a remarkable man. Phil Rock is too self-effacing for such praise, but the pages of Nobody Calls Just to say Hello embodies that formula of character that make Phil’s years in the Illinois Senate a powerful exercise in human success. His stories brim with insight and sometimes never-before-told history.”—Alderman Edward M....
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- PublisherSouthern Illinois University Press
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 0809330717
- ISBN 13 9780809330713
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages280
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