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Book Remembering Chicago Again

    Book Details:
  • Author : Wttw
  • Publisher : Northwestern University Press
  • Release : 2004-05-28
  • ISBN : 9780810122581
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Remembering Chicago Again written by Wttw and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2004-05-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Remembering Chicago

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  • Author : MOSBY
  • Publisher : WTTW
  • Release : 2004-05-28
  • ISBN : 9780810122567
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Remembering Chicago written by MOSBY and published by WTTW. This book was released on 2004-05-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Remembering Chicago

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  • Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
  • Release : 2010-05-31
  • ISBN : 1618582925
  • Pages : 459 pages

Download or read book Remembering Chicago written by and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2010-05-31 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a selection of fine historic images from his best-selling book Historic Photos of Chicago Crime: The Capone Era, John Russick provides a valuable and revealing historical retrospective on Chicago’s gangster era. Perhaps no city has a more fabled past than Chicago, home of legendary Al Capone. But that fabled past is often portrayed separate from the surrounding web of social realities, without which no event, no period in time can be understood. Remembering Chicago: Crime in the Capone Era addresses this problem by opening with a compelling look at Chicago’s cityscape to include a broad range of cultural phenomena—from suffrage to jazz—essential to the contextualization of crime in the 1920s and 1930s. The history then proceeds as its title suggests—to a riveting overview of crime in Chicago, chock-full of images documenting notorious gangsters and gruesome gangland wars. Al Capone, John Torrio, Earl "Hymie” Weiss, George "Bugs” Moran, and a host of others are all here. Complete with insightful captions by historian John Russick, these photos offer a unique view into Chicago and its nefarious past.

Book Remembering Chicago And World War II

Download or read book Remembering Chicago And World War II written by ANONIMO and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2004-05-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Remembering Chicago

Download or read book Remembering Chicago written by ANONIMO and published by WTTW. This book was released on 2012-06-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was an era that redefined Chicago history. . . an era that would transform a generation and change the face of the nation, and a time that would blossom into an age of self-discovery and see the awakening of a city and an entire country. Relive Chicago through the eyes of twenty Chicagoans as they recount the stories and events of their youth, comings of age, and the hallmarks that define them as individuals, as Chicagoans and as Baby Boomers. This new program covers many of the events and places that shaped the lives of every Chicagoan, including Bozo's Circus, the radio battles of WLS versus WCFL, the scares of polio and the atomic bomb, John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, the 1967 blizzard, the moon walk, and so much more.

Book Remembering the University of Chicago

Download or read book Remembering the University of Chicago written by Edward Shils and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1991-12 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To celebrate the intellectual achievement of the University of Chicago on the occasion of its centennial year, Edward Shils invited a group of notable scholars and scientists to reflect upon some of their own teachers and colleagues at the University.

Book The Old Chicago Neighborhood

Download or read book The Old Chicago Neighborhood written by Neal S. Samors and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is about Chicago neighborhood life in the 1940s as remembered by 125 current and former Chicago residents, combined with 100 duotone images. This volume looks back fondly at daily life, the War years, sports and recreation and entertainment in Chicago's neighborhoods.

Book Lost Restaurants of Chicago

Download or read book Lost Restaurants of Chicago written by Greg Borzo and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of Chicago's greatest or most unusual restaurants are "no longer taking reservations," but they're definitely not forgotten. From steakhouses to delis, these dining destinations attracted movie stars, fed the hungry, launched nationwide trends and created a smorgasbord of culinary choices. Stretching across almost two centuries of memorable service and adventurous menus, this book revisits the institutions entrusted with the city's special occasions. Noted author Greg Borzo dishes out course after course of fondly remembered fare, from Maxim's to Charlie Trotter's and Trader Vic's to the Blackhawk.

Book Remembering Chicago3

    Book Details:
  • Author : Wttw
  • Publisher : Northwestern University Press
  • Release : 2004-05-28
  • ISBN : 9780810122611
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Remembering Chicago3 written by Wttw and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2004-05-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Memory  History  Forgetting

Download or read book Memory History Forgetting written by Paul Ricoeur and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do major historical events such as the Holocaust occupy the forefront of the collective consciousness, while profound moments such as the Armenian genocide, the McCarthy era, and France's role in North Africa stand distantly behind? Is it possible that history "overly remembers" some events at the expense of others? A landmark work in philosophy, Paul Ricoeur's Memory, History, Forgetting examines this reciprocal relationship between remembering and forgetting, showing how it affects both the perception of historical experience and the production of historical narrative. Memory, History, Forgetting, like its title, is divided into three major sections. Ricoeur first takes a phenomenological approach to memory and mnemonical devices. The underlying question here is how a memory of present can be of something absent, the past. The second section addresses recent work by historians by reopening the question of the nature and truth of historical knowledge. Ricoeur explores whether historians, who can write a history of memory, can truly break with all dependence on memory, including memories that resist representation. The third and final section is a profound meditation on the necessity of forgetting as a condition for the possibility of remembering, and whether there can be something like happy forgetting in parallel to happy memory. Throughout the book there are careful and close readings of the texts of Aristotle and Plato, of Descartes and Kant, and of Halbwachs and Pierre Nora. A momentous achievement in the career of one of the most significant philosophers of our age, Memory, History, Forgetting provides the crucial link between Ricoeur's Time and Narrative and Oneself as Another and his recent reflections on ethics and the problems of responsibility and representation. “His success in revealing the internal relations between recalling and forgetting, and how this dynamic becomes problematic in light of events once present but now past, will inspire academic dialogue and response but also holds great appeal to educated general readers in search of both method for and insight from considering the ethical ramifications of modern events. . . . It is indeed a master work, not only in Ricoeur’s own vita but also in contemporary European philosophy.”—Library Journal “Ricoeur writes the best kind of philosophy—critical, economical, and clear.”— New York Times Book Review

Book On the Shore

Download or read book On the Shore written by Albert Halper and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Memory

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  • Author : Alison Winter
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2012-01-16
  • ISBN : 0226902587
  • Pages : 331 pages

Download or read book Memory written by Alison Winter and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-01-16 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Picture your 21st birthday. Did you have a party? If so, do you remember who was there? How clear are these memories? Should we trust them? Such questions have fascinated scientists for hundreds of years, and, as Alison Winter shows in this book, the answers have changed dramatically in just the past century.

Book Chicago in the Sixties

Download or read book Chicago in the Sixties written by Neal S. Samors and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the memories and photographs of eighty Chicagoans with different backgrounds and experiences of life during the 1960s.

Book The Chicago of Fiction

Download or read book The Chicago of Fiction written by James A. Kaser and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The importance of Chicago in American culture has made the city's place in the American imagination a crucial topic for literary scholars and cultural historians. While databases of bibliographical information on Chicago-centered fiction are available, they are of little use to scholars researching works written before the 1980s. In The Chicago of Fiction: A Resource Guide, James A. Kaser provides detailed synopses for more than 1,200 works of fiction significantly set in Chicago and published between 1852 and 1980. The synopses include plot summaries, names of major characters, and an indication of physical settings. An appendix provides bibliographical information for works dating from 1981 well into the 21st century, while a biographical section provides basic information about the authors, some of whom are obscure and would be difficult to find in other sources. Written to assist researchers in locating works of fiction for analysis, the plot summaries highlight ways in which the works touch on major aspects of social history and cultural studies (i.e., class, ethnicity, gender, immigrant experience, and race). The book is also a useful reader advisory tool for librarians and readers who want to identify materials for leisure reading, particularly since genre, juvenile, and young adult fiction, as well as literary fiction, are included.

Book Remembering the Unexperienced

Download or read book Remembering the Unexperienced written by Stephen D. Campbell and published by V&R Unipress. This book was released on 2020-11-16 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that a helpful framework within which to interpret the paraenesis of Deuteronomy 4:1–40 can be constructed through interaction with the cultural memory interests of German Egyptologist Jan Assmann and the canonical approach of U.S. biblical theologian Brevard Childs. By bringing Assmann's cultural memory concerns to bear on the world within the text, Deuteronomy is brought into fruitful contact with questions from the field of sociology; by asking these questions in interaction with the theologically rich formulation of canon offered by Childs's canonical approach, Deuteronomy is interpreted as an authoritative witness to God for contemporary communities of faith. As a result of this reading strategy the communal and trans-generational nature of covenant stands out. This emphasis, in turn, influences the way Horeb is remembered by later generations and how that memory is transmitted from one generation to the next through ritual practice and the text of Scripture.

Book Remembering Heaven s Face

Download or read book Remembering Heaven s Face written by John Balaban and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author recounts his years in Vietnam as a conscientious objector, serving as a teacher and a rescue worker for an organization that sent children with war injuries to the United States.

Book The Sacrament

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  • Author : Olaf Olafsson
  • Publisher : HarperCollins
  • Release : 2019-12-03
  • ISBN : 0062899899
  • Pages : 262 pages

Download or read book The Sacrament written by Olaf Olafsson and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The haunting, vivid story of a nun whose past returns to her in unexpected ways, all while investigating a mysterious death and a series of harrowing abuse claims A young nun is sent by the Vatican to investigate allegations of misconduct at a Catholic school in Iceland. During her time there, on a gray winter’s day, a young student at the school watches the school’s headmaster, Father August Franz, fall to his death from the church tower. Two decades later, the child—now a grown man, haunted by the past—calls the nun back to the scene of the crime. Seeking peace and calm in her twilight years at a convent in France, she has no choice to make a trip to Iceland again, a trip that brings her former visit, as well as her years as a young woman in Paris, powerfully and sometimes painfully to life. In Paris, she met an Icelandic girl who she has not seen since, but whose acquaintance changed her life, a relationship she relives all while reckoning with the mystery of August Franz’s death and the abuses of power that may have brought it on. In The Sacrament, critically acclaimed novelist Olaf Olafsson looks deeply at the complexity of our past lives and selves; the faulty nature of memory; and the indelible mark left by the joys and traumas of youth. Affecting and beautifully observed, The Sacrament is both propulsively told and poignantly written—tinged with the tragedy of life’s regrets but also moved by the possibilities of redemption, a new work from a novelist who consistently surprises and challenges.