Third Coast When Chicago Built the American Dream

Name: Third Coast When Chicago Built the American Dream
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ISBN: 9781594204326

ISBN-10: 1594204322

ISBN-13: 9781594204326

Edition: N/A

Authors: Thomas Dyja

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Though today it can seem as if all American culture comes out of New York and Los Angeles, much of what defined the nation as it grew into a superpower was produced in Chicago. Before air travel overtook trains, nearly every coast-to coast journey included a stop there, and this flow of people and commodities made it America's central clearinghouse, laboratory, and factory. Between the end of World War II and 1960, Mies van der Rohe's glass and steel architecture became the face of corporate America, Ray Kroc's McDonald's changed how we eat, Hugh Hefner unveiled Playboy, and the Chess brothers supercharged rock and roll with Chuck Berry. At the University of Chicago, the atom was split and…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/18/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 544
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English

Thomas Dyja is a partner at the book packager and publishing firm Balliatt & Fitzgerald. Dyja lives in New York City.