Download or read book The Present and Future Prospects of Chicago An Address Delivered Before the Chicago Lyceum January 20 1846 written by Harriet Martineau and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-06-07 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Download or read book Chicago by the Book written by Caxton Club and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite its rough-and-tumble image, Chicago has long been identified as a city where books take center stage. In fact, a volume by A. J. Liebling gave the Second City its nickname. Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle arose from the midwestern capital’s most infamous industry. The great Chicago Fire led to the founding of the Chicago Public Library. The city has fostered writers such as Nelson Algren, Saul Bellow, and Gwendolyn Brooks. Chicago’s literary magazines The Little Review and Poetry introduced the world to Eliot, Hemingway, Joyce, and Pound. The city’s robust commercial printing industry supported a flourishing culture of the book. With this beautifully produced collection, Chicago’s rich literary tradition finally gets its due. Chicago by the Book profiles 101 landmark publications about Chicago from the past 170 years that have helped define the city and its image. Each title—carefully selected by the Caxton Club, a venerable Chicago bibliophilic organization—is the focus of an illustrated essay by a leading scholar, writer, or bibliophile. Arranged chronologically to show the history of both the city and its books, the essays can be read in order from Mrs. John H. Kinzie’s 1844 Narrative of the Massacre of Chicago to Sara Paretsky’s 2015 crime novel Brush Back. Or one can dip in and out, savoring reflections on the arts, sports, crime, race relations, urban planning, politics, and even Mrs. O’Leary’s legendary cow. The selections do not shy from the underside of the city, recognizing that its grit and graft have as much a place in the written imagination as soaring odes and boosterism. As Neil Harris observes in his introduction, “Even when Chicagoans celebrate their hearth and home, they do so while acknowledging deep-seated flaws.” At the same time, this collection heartily reminds us all of what makes Chicago, as Norman Mailer called it, the “great American city.” With essays from, among others, Ira Berkow, Thomas Dyja, Ann Durkin Keating, Alex Kotlowitz, Toni Preckwinkle, Frank Rich, Don Share, Carl Smith, Regina Taylor, Garry Wills, and William Julius Wilson; and featuring works by Saul Bellow, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sandra Cisneros, Clarence Darrow, Erik Larson, David Mamet, Studs Terkel, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Frank Lloyd Wright, and many more.
Download or read book Early Chicago written by Henry Brown and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book City Water City Life written by Carl Smith and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A city is more than a massing of citizens, a layout of buildings and streets, or an arrangement of political, economic, and social institutions. It is also an infrastructure of ideas that are a support for the beliefs, values, and aspirations of the people who created the city. In City Water, City Life, celebrated historian Carl Smith explores this concept through an insightful examination of the development of the first successful waterworks systems in Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago between the 1790s and the 1860s. By examining the place of water in the nineteenth-century consciousness, Smith illuminates how city dwellers perceived themselves during the great age of American urbanization. But City Water, City Life is more than a history of urbanization. It is also a refreshing meditation on water as a necessity, as a resource for commerce and industry, and as an essential—and central—part of how we define our civilization.
Download or read book Chicago s Great Fire written by Carl Smith and published by Grove Atlantic. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive chronicle of the 1871 Chicago Fire as remembered by those who experienced it—from the author of Chicago and the American Literary Imagination. Over three days in October, 1871, much of Chicago, Illinois, was destroyed by one of the most legendary urban fires in history. Incorporated as a city in 1837, Chicago had grown at a breathtaking pace in the intervening decades—and much of the hastily-built city was made of wood. Starting in Catherine and Patrick O’Leary’s barn, the Fire quickly grew out of control, twice jumping branches of the Chicago River on its relentless path through the city’s three divisions. While the death toll was miraculously low, nearly a third of Chicago residents were left homeless and more were instantly unemployed. This popular history of the Great Chicago Fire approaches the subject through the memories of those who experienced it. Chicago historian Carl Smith builds the story around memorable characters, both known to history and unknown, including the likes of General Philip Sheridan and Robert Todd Lincoln. Smith chronicles the city’s rapid growth and its place in America’s post-Civil War expansion. The dramatic story of the fire—revealing human nature in all its guises—became one of equally remarkable renewal, as Chicago quickly rose back up from the ashes thanks to local determination and the world’s generosity. As we approach the fire’s 150th anniversary, Carl Smith’s compelling narrative at last gives this epic event its full and proper place in our national chronicle. “The best book ever written about the fire, a work of deep scholarship by Carl Smith that reads with the forceful narrative of a fine novel. It puts the fire and its aftermath in historical, political and social context. It’s a revelatory pleasure to read.” —Chicago Tribune
Download or read book Nature s Metropolis Chicago and the Great West written by William Cronon and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009-11-02 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and Winner of the Bancroft Prize. "No one has written a better book about a city…Nature's Metropolis is elegant testimony to the proposition that economic, urban, environmental, and business history can be as graceful, powerful, and fascinating as a novel." —Kenneth T. Jackson, Boston Globe
Download or read book Congressional Reminiscences written by John Wentworth and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Environmentalism written by David Pepper and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2003 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Father Marquette at Mackinaw and Chicago written by Henry Higgins Hurlbut and published by Chicago : Jansen, McClurg. This book was released on 1878 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College with Annals of the College History September 1805 September 1815 written by Franklin Bowditch Dexter and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College with Annals of the College History written by Franklin Bowditch Dexter and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College written by Franklin Bowditch Dexter and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Winter in the West written by Charles Fenno Hoffman and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Illinois in the Eighteenth Century written by Edward Gay Mason and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Discourse on the Aborigines of the Ohio Valley in which the Opinions of Its Conquest in the Seventeenth Century by the Iroquois Or Six Nations Supported by Cadwallader Colden Gov Thomas Pownall Dr Benjamin Franklin Hon De Witt Clinton and Judge John Haywood are Examined and Contested to which are Prefixed Some Remarks on the Study of History written by William Henry Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Early Illinois Railroads written by William K. Ackerman and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
