City of the Century The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America

Name: City of the Century The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America
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ISBN: 9780684831381

ISBN-10: 0684831384

ISBN-13: 9780684831381

Edition: 1997

Authors: Donald L. Miller

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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 reckless growth, its natural calamities (especially the Great Fire of 1871), its raucous politics, its empire-building businessmen, its world-transforming architecture, its rich mix of cultures, its community of young writers and journalists, and its staggering engineering projects -- which included the reversal of the Chicago River and raising the entire city from prairie mud to save it from devastating…

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List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication date: 4/3/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 704
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.90" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English

Donald L. Miller is the John Henry McCracken Professor of History at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, where he lives, and is the host of the PBS series A Biography of America.



Preface



Discovery



The Priest and the Explorer



Joliet's Dream



"Didn't Expect No Town"



Wild Chicago



Banishing the Past



Odgen's Chicago



The Founder



A Prairie Aristocracy



The Grid and the Balloon Frame



The Great Chicago Exchange Engine



The Big Junction



The Mechanical Man



Stacker of Wheat and Wood, Packer of Pork



Empire City of the West



Chicago Against Nature



City of Extremes



My Lost City



The Great Fire



Unapproachable in Calamity



That Astonishing Chicago



"Grander and Statelier Than Ever"



America's City



The Chicago Machine



Empires of Order and Blood



A Fortress of Oppression



The Pullman Idea



Steel Rails to Country Kitchens



The Streetcar City



Palaces of Desire



The Loop



City and Suburb



Sunday in Chicago



Stories in Stone and Steel



Something New Under the Sun



Burnham and Root



The Major's Birdcage



Factories in the Sky



Sullivan and Civic Renewal



The Auditorium



A Proud and Soaring Thing



The New Chicago



Burnham's White City



Hutchinson's Three-Ring Circus



Harper's University



The Social Defense of Caste



The New Chicago Woman



Cleansing the City



The Battle for Chicago



Politics "Ain't Bean Bag"



Why the Ward Boss Rules



Haymarket



It's Harrison Again



1893



The Fair



The "Gomorrah of the West"



Stories of the Streets and of the Town



After the Fair



If Christ Came to Chicago!



Regeneration


Notes


Bibliography


Acknowledgements


Index