Bitter Fruit(Illustrated) Black Politics and the Chicago Machine, 1931-1991 by William J. Grimshaw Hardcover, 262 Pages, Published 1992 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-30893-7, ISBN: 0-226-30893-6
"William Grimshaw offers an insider's chronicle of the tangled relationship between the black community and the Chicago Democratic machine from its Great Depression origins to 1991. What emerges is a myth-busting account not of a monolithic organization but of several distinct party regimes, each with a unique relationship to black voters and leaders."
"'Roly' Grimshaw, at the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914, was a Captain in the 34th Prince Albert Victor's Own Poona Horse Corps; he was at home on leave from India at the time, but eventually rejoined his regiment in Egypt when they were en route to Europe and was with them from their arrival in France until he was severely wounded in December 1914.
The book is in three parts: the first is Captain Grimshaw's diary of his ..."