The Mayor Of Maxwell Street
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The Mayor Of Maxwell Street
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Author : Avery Cunningham
language : en
Publisher: Disney Electronic Content
Release Date : 2024-01-30
The Mayor Of Maxwell Street written by Avery Cunningham and has been published by Disney Electronic Content this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-30 with Fiction categories.
"A debut novel everyone will be talking about," Avery Cunningham's epic love story is "a triumph" and "a tale of intrigue, racial tension, and class warfare, set against the glamorous and gritty backdrop of early 20th century Chicago." When a rich Black debutante enlists the help of a low-level speakeasy manager to identify the head of an underground crime syndicate, the two are thrust into the dangerous world of Prohibition-era Chicago. The year is 1921, and America is burning. A fire of vice and virtue rages on every shore, and Chicago is its beating heart. Nelly Sawyer is the daughter of the “wealthiest Negro in America,” whose affluence catapulted his family to the heights of Black society. After the unexpected death of her only brother, Nelly becomes the premier debutante overnight. But Nelly has aspirations beyond society influence and marriage. For the past year, she has worked undercover as an investigative journalist, sharing the achievements and tribulations of everyday Black people living in the shadow of Jim Crow. Her latest assignment thrusts her into the den of a dangerous vice lord: the so-called Mayor of Maxwell Street. Born in rural Alabama to a murdered biracial couple, Jay Shorey knows firsthand what it means to be denied a chance at the American dream. When a tragic turn of fate gave Jay a rare path out, he took it without question. He washed up on Chicago’s storied shores and forged his own way to the top of the city’s underworld, running Chicago's swankiest speakeasy, where the rich and famous rub elbows with gangsters and politicians alike. When Nelly’s and Jay’s paths cross, she recruits him to help expose the Mayor and bring about lasting change in a corrupt city. But Jay also introduces a whole new world to Nelly, one where her horizons can extend beyond the confines of her ivory tower. Trapped between the monolith of Jim Crow, the inflexible world of the Black upper class, and the violence of Prohibition-era Chicago, Jay and Nelly work together and stoke the flames of a love worth fighting for. Debut author Avery Cunningham’s stunning novel is at once an epic love story, a riveting historical drama, and a brilliant exploration of Black society and perseverance when the ‘20s first began to roar.
Chicago S Maxwell Street
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Author : Lori Grove
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2002
Chicago S Maxwell Street written by Lori Grove and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
Presents a collection of photographs that depict the history of Maxwell Street in Chicago.
The Blues Dream Of Billy Boy Arnold
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Author : Billy Boy Arnold
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2021-11-19
The Blues Dream Of Billy Boy Arnold written by Billy Boy Arnold and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-19 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"Billy Boy Arnold, born in 1935, is one of the few native Chicagoans who both cultivated a career in the blues and stayed in Chicago. His perspective on Chicago's music, people, and places is rare and valuable. Arnold has worked with generations of musicians-from Tampa Red and Howlin' Wolf and to Muddy Waters and Paul Butterfield-on countless recordings, witnessing the decline of country blues, the dawn of electric blues, the onset of blues-inspired rock, and more. Here, with writer Kim Field, he gets it all down on paper-including the story of how he named Bo Diddley Bo Diddley"--
Jewish Maxwell Street Stories
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2004
Jewish Maxwell Street Stories written by and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
Anyone who has seen Maxwell Street has a story about Maxwell Street. You didn't have to shop there, work there, or eat there. You didn't have to be Jewish. You just had to go there, or merely pass-by, in order to experience something that stuck in your mind forever. Only a few blocks south of Chicago's downtown, Maxwell Street was predominately a Jewish enclave, but you could also hear the Blues, bargain with Gypsies, and find bargain hunters from all walks of life. This book focuses on the stories of the last Jewish generations that lived and worked in the Maxwell Street market area. Beginning in the late 19th century, it was there that thousands of Jewish immigrants first grasped the American dream. The descendents of those first Jewish peddlers absorbed the legacies left them; some went on to be among the most notable and successful personalities of the 20th century. On Maxwell Street, the best merchandise was knowledge.
Maxwell Street
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Author : Tim Cresswell
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2019-03-22
Maxwell Street written by Tim Cresswell and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-22 with History categories.
What is the nature of place, and how does one undertake to write about it? To answer these questions, geographer and poet Tim Cresswell looks to Chicago’s iconic Maxwell Street Market area. Maxwell Street was for decades a place where people from all corners of the city mingled to buy and sell goods, play and listen to the blues, and encounter new foods and cultures. Now, redeveloped and renamed University Village, it could hardly be more different. In Maxwell Street, Cresswell advocates approaching the study of place as an “assemblage” of things, meanings, and practices. He models this innovative approach through a montage format that exposes the different types of texts—primary, secondary, and photographic sources—that have attempted to capture the essence of the area. Cresswell studies his historical sources just as he explores the different elements of Maxwell Street—exposing them layer by layer. Brilliantly interweaving words and images, Maxwell Street sheds light on a historic Chicago neighborhood and offers a new model for how to write about place that will interest anyone in the fields of geography, urban studies, or cultural history.
Preliminary Report To The Mayor And Aldermen Of The City Of Chicago By The Chicago Municipal Markets Commission
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Author : Chicago Municipal Markets Commission
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1914
Preliminary Report To The Mayor And Aldermen Of The City Of Chicago By The Chicago Municipal Markets Commission written by Chicago Municipal Markets Commission and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1914 with categories.
Manufacturers Record
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1911
Manufacturers Record written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1911 with categories.
Municipal Register Containing The Mayor S Address And Annual Reports For With The City Officers For
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Author : Taunton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1882
Municipal Register Containing The Mayor S Address And Annual Reports For With The City Officers For written by Taunton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1882 with categories.
Tale Of The Mayor S Son
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Author : Glyn Maxwell
language : en
Publisher: Learning Links
Release Date : 1990
Tale Of The Mayor S Son written by Glyn Maxwell and has been published by Learning Links this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Poetry categories.
A Poetry Book Society Choice. Love, now simple, now sexual, now bright and naive, now dark and obsessive; the comedy, hypocrisy, and horror of authority; the absurdities of television, stardom, and advertising: these are the themes. By turns comic and satirical, political and passionate, rhapsodic and elegiac, what makes (this) such rewarding reading is the range of talents he possesses and the energy and inventiveness he deploys in combining them...A supple formalist whose shrewd control over metre, stanza forms, rhyme and half-rhyme is impressive. -- TLS.
Maxwell Street
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Author : Ira Berkow
language : en
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Release Date : 1977
Maxwell Street written by Ira Berkow and has been published by Doubleday Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Maxwell Street is an open-air market on Chicago's West Side, the center of a ghetto about a mile square, where thousands of Jewish immigrants fleeing pogroms and persecution in Eastern Europe settled and first set up business in America between 1880 and 1924. This engrossing, lively and richly illustrated chronicle recreates the color, the diversity and the personality of Maxwell Street both through the author's recollections of his own childhood experience and the actual stories of many for whom Maxwell Street was the first taste of America.