Edward "Ted" McClelland - Author

How the rough-and-tumble reality of Chicago taught a brilliant but callow young African-American politician the lessons that launched him on the road to history.

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Edward Robert McClelland (pictured left, with Lovro Milos, deckhand on the Joseph L. Block) is the author of Horseplayers: Life at the Track, a memoir of a year spent at the races, and The Third Coast, a Great Lakes travelogue to be published next winter by Chicago Review Press.

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