City of Scoundrels: The Twelve Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago

by Gary Krist

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The masterfully told story of twelve volatile days in Chicago, when an aviation disaster, a race riot, a crippling transit strike, and a sensational child murder transfixed and roiled a city already on the brink of collapse.

When 1919 began, the city of Chicago seemed on the verge of transformation. Modernizers had an audacious, expensive plan to turn the city from a brawling, unglamorous place into "the Metropolis of the World." But...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0307454304

ISBN13:9780307454300

Release Date:April 2013

Publisher:Crown Publishing Group (NY)

Length:400 Pages

Weight:0.78 lbs.

Dimensions:1.2" x 5.1" x 7.8"

Related Subjects

20th Century History Modern (16th-21st Centuries) State & Local Urban

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Outstanding Documentation of Chicago becoming A Modern City.

Published by Yasha , 3 months ago

I grew up in Chicago in the 1950s & 1960s. This book made me wish I was there when THE BLIMP cruised along Lake Michigan before crashing.

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