Lost Chicago
10 best books like Lost Chicago (David Garrard Lowe): Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West, Chicago, Crossing California, Chicago: City on the Make, Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago, City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America, Never a City So Real: A Walk in Chicago, Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America, Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago, The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City
| Author | William Cronon |
| ISBN | 0393308731 |
In this groundbreaking work, William Cronon gives us an environmental perspective on the history of nineteenth-century America. By exploring the ecological and economic changes that made Chicago America's most dynamic city and the Great West its hinterland, Mr. Cronon opens a new window onto our...
| Author | Studs Terkel |
| ISBN | 5551545687 |
Really was just an essay. So it made a fairly short book. Thoroughly enjoyable. Thoroughly Studs. Great follow-up to Nelson Algren's Chicago, City on the Make, which I found one day many years ago on father's shelf. It wasn't there when we cleaned the house out though. I'm going to have to break down and...
Several months after first reading Crossing California, I discovered a video on author Adam Langer’s website. Narrated by Langer, the video features early 1970’s Super-8 footage of Chicago’s West Rogers Park, the neighborhood in which the novel is set. Unearthed from the basement of his parents’...
| Author | Nelson Algren |
| ISBN | 0226013855 |
This 50th anniversary edition has been newly annotated by David Schmittgens and Bill Savage with explanations for everything from Chicago history to slang to what the Black Sox scandal was and why it mattered.
In this slender classic ... Algren tells us all we need to know about passion, heaven,...
Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago
| Author | Mike Royko |
| ISBN | 0452261678 |
"The best book ever written about an American city, by the best journalist of his time."-- Jimmy Breslin
New edition of the classic story of the late Richard J. Daley, politician and self-promoter extraordinaire, from his inauspicious youth on Chicago's South Side through his rapid climb...
City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America
| Author | Donald L. Miller |
| ISBN | 0684831384 |
The epic of Chicago is the story of the emergence of modern America. Here, witness Chicago's growth from a desolate fur-trading post in the 1830s to one of the world's most explosively alive cities by 1900.
Donald Miller's powerful narrative embraces it all: Chicago's wild beginnings, its...
Never a City So Real: A Walk in Chicago
| Author | Alex Kotlowitz |
| ISBN | 1400046211 |
The acclaimed author of There Are No Children Here takes us into the heart of Chicago by introducing us to some of the city’s most interesting, if not always celebrated, people.
Chicago is one of America’s most iconic, historic, and fascinating cities, as well as a major travel destination....
Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America
| Author | James R. Green |
| ISBN | 1400033225 |
On May 4, 1886, a bomb exploded at a Chicago labor rally, wounding dozens of policemen, seven of whom eventually died. A wave of mass hysteria swept the country, leading to a sensational trial, that culminated in four controversial executions, and dealt a blow to the labor movement from which it would...
Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago
| Author | Eric Klinenberg |
| ISBN | 0226443221 |
On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index, which measures how the temperature actually feels on the body, would hit 126 degrees by the time the day was over. Meteorologists had been warning residents about a two-day...
The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City
| Author | Carl Smith |
| ISBN | 0226764710 |
Arguably the most influential document in the history of urban planning, Daniel Burnham’s 1909 Plan of Chicago, coauthored by Edward Bennett and produced in collaboration with the Commercial Club of Chicago, proposed many of the city’s most distinctive features, including its lakefront parks...
Although many Americans consider the establishment of the colonies as the birth of this country, in fact Early America already existed long before the arrival of the Europeans. From coast to coast, Native Americans had created enduring cultures, and the subsequent European invasion remade much...
A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago
| Author | Ben Hecht |
| ISBN | 1426426984 |
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not...
| Author | Dominic A. Pacyga |
| ISBN | 0226644316 |
Chicago has been called by many names. Nelson Algren declared it a “City on the Make.” Carl Sandburg dubbed it the “City of Big Shoulders.” Upton Sinclair christened it “The Jungle,” while New Yorkers, naturally, pronounced it “the Second City.” At last there is a book for all of us,...
Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago 1940-1960
| Author | Arnold R. Hirsch |
| ISBN | 0226342441 |
In Making the Second Ghetto, Arnold Hirsch argues that in the post-depression years Chicago was a "pioneer in developing concepts and devices" for housing segregation. Hirsch shows that the legal framework for the national urban renewal effort was forged in the heat generated by the racial struggles...
The Gangs of Chicago: An Informal History of the Chicago Underworld
| Author | Herbert Asbury |
| ISBN | 1560254548 |
This classic history of crime tells how Chicago's underworld earned—and kept—its reputation. Recounting the lives of such notorious denizens as the original Mickey Finn, the mass murderer H. H. Holmes, and the three Car Barn Bandits, Asbury reveals life as it was lived in the criminal districts...
American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley - His Battle for Chicago and the Nation
| Author | Adam Cohen |
| ISBN | 0316834890 |
"This is Chicago, this is America." With those words, Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley famously defended his brutal crackdown on protesters at the 1968 Democratic convention. Profoundly divided racially, economically and socially, Chicago was indeed a microcosm of America, and for more than two...
Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939
| Author | Lizabeth Cohen |
| ISBN | 0521428386 |
It is hard to believe that this book is over twenty years old. I still refer to it when discussing the Great Depression and the formation of the New Deal coalition of the 1930s. I think the greatest strength of the book is the detailed description Cohen gives us of the social safety net that existed in the...
| Author | Neal Pollack |
| ISBN | 1888451890 |
"The population of Chicago Noir is as diverse as any crowd at the lakefront fireworks show...As representative of Chicago as Oprah, MJ and a Gold Coast hot dog."
--Chicago Sun-Times
"Chicago Noir asks us to consider whether Chicago is, specifically, a noir city and, more significantly,...
The Chicago World's Fair of 1893: A Photographic Record
Originally conceived to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Columbus's discovery of America, the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 was one of the largest (633 acres) and most influential aggregations of human talent, energy, and industry ever assembled. More than 27 million visitors entered...
The French Connection: A True Account of Cops, Narcotics, and International Conspiracy
| Author | Robin Moore |
| ISBN | 1592280447 |
With a new introduction by the author. The true, absorbing and sometimes frightening documentary of the world's most successful narcotics investigation, The French Connection is one of the most fascinating crime accounts of our time. When New York City detectives Eddie "Popeye" Egan and his partner...
The Blueprint: How the Democrats Won Colorado (and Why Republicans Everywhere Should Care)
| Author | Adam Schrager |
| ISBN | 1936218003 |
Now with an updated epilogue about the 2010 elections.
This is the inside story of one of the most stunning reversals of political fortune in American history. Four years ago, the GOP dominated politics at every level in Colorado. Republicans held both Senate seats, five of seven congressional...
Henry Darger: Art and Selected Writings
| Author | Henry Darger |
| ISBN | 0847822842 |
In the quarter century since the death of Henry Darger--and the discovery of the astonishing cache of artworks and writings he left behind--this reclusive Chicago janitor has become recognized as one of the most important outsider artists of the twentieth century in America.
This book provides...
| Author | Jay Bonansinga |
| ISBN | 0806526289 |
It was a morning to remember. On July 24th, 1915 in downtown Chicago, over 2,000 Western Electric Employees and their families, dressed in their best and went to board the Eastland for the annual company picnic. The Eastland was a breathtaking steamship and many came to watch as the ship loaded the excited...
The Outfit: The Role of Chicago's Underworld in the Shaping of Modern America
| Author | Gus Russo |
| ISBN | 1582342792 |
The never-before-told story of the great Chicago crime family called The Outfit.
It is a common misperception that all the true-life organized crime stories have been written. Yet perhaps the most compelling gangster tale is one that has been, until now, too well-hidden. This is the story...
