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R. Craig Sautter

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Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: The author lives in Chicago and teaches at DePaul.

Biography: Sauter is a writer, author, educator and poet. He has taught courses in philosophy, politics, history, literature, and creative writing at DePaul University's School for New Learning, and has been presented with several teaching awards. He has written and produced many TV and radio ads and speeches and has appeared on radio and television as a political commentator. Sautter is a past president of the Society of Midland Authors and resides in Chicago.


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Primary Literary Genre(s): Non-Fiction

Email: rcsautter@aol.com
Website: http://www.presidentialconventions.com/
R. Craig Sautter on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=r.+craig+sautter


Selected Titles

  26 martyrs for these latter perilous days /
ISBN: 0913204382 OCLC: 56477762

December Press, Highland Park, IL : ©2004.

  Expresslanes through the inevitable city /
ISBN: 0913204269 OCLC: 23143951

December Press, Highland Park, Ill. : ©1990.

Inside the wigwam :
ISBN: 0829409114 OCLC: 34548853

Wild Onion Books, Chicago : ©1996.

A timely history of national conventions held in Chicago from the Civil War era to the latest 1996 convention at the United Center, Inside the Wigwam: Chicago Presidential Conventions 1860-1996 captures their drama, their behind-the-scenes intrigue and negotiations, and their local color. No American city has been the site of more national presidential nominating conventions than Chicago. Since Abraham Lincoln was nominated at the Wigwam in 1860, Chicago has hosted 25 national conventions. Authors R. Craig Sautter and Edward M. Burke describe the historical significance of each major convention and portray the often larger-than-life personalities who became - or wanted to become - president. The conventions reflected the often troubled times, from William Jennings Bryan's electrifying "cross of gold" speech in 1896 to the street violence that erupted in 1968 during the height of the Vietnam War. Sautter and Burke highlight the issues that confronted the country, transcending superficial campaign slogans and partisan speechmaking to discover what really happened on the convention floor and behind the smoke-filled rooms. Full of colorful anecdotes, the book also contains photographs of both candidates and nominees, "Facts-at-a-Glance" boxes highlighting important convention details, key political issues of each convention, statistics, and trivia. Engrossing and thoughtful, Inside the Wigwam is a book for and about our times, an exciting examination of the often raucous political tugs-of-war that determined the fate of the nation.

New York presidential conventions :
ISBN: 0913204404 OCLC: 56568683

December Press, Highland Park, Ill. : ©2004.

Philadelphia presidential conventions /
ISBN: 0913204374 OCLC: 43793818

December Press, Highland Park, Ill. : ©2000.

"Philadelphia Presidential Conventions is a panoramic excursion through the half-hidden history of Presidential nominating conventions held in Philadelphia, America's original convention city, by the nation's leading political parties over the past century-and-a-half."--Jacket.

Smart schools, smart kids :
ISBN: 0671792121 OCLC: 26777215

Simon & Schuster, New York : 1992.

Funded by Child Development Training Consortium. (6/96).

The wicked city :
ISBN: 0306808218 OCLC: 37457928

Da Capo Press, New York : 1998.

Traces Chicago's history of vice, crime, capitalism, and corruption from colonial times through the Roaring Twenties, describing the exploits of the city's most powerful criminals.

Wicked city Chicago :
ISBN: 0913204315 OCLC: 30419509

December Press, Chicago : ©1994.

 

 

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