You Were Never In Chicago
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You Were Never In Chicago
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Author : Neil Steinberg
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2013
You Were Never In Chicago written by Neil Steinberg 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 2013 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Steinberg takes readers through Chicago's vanishing industrial past and explores the city from the quaint skybridge between the towers of the Wrigley Building, to the depths of the vast Deep Tunnel system below the streets. He deftly explains the city's complex web of political favoritism and carefully profiles the characters he meets along the way. Steinberg never loses the curiosity and close observation of an outsider, while thoughtfully considering how this perspective has shaped the city, and what it really means to belong.
Never A City So Real
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Author : Alex Kotlowitz
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 2004-07-06
Never A City So Real written by Alex Kotlowitz and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-07-06 with Travel categories.
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. For Alex Kotlowitz, an accidental Chicagoan, it is the perfect perch from which to peer into America’s heart. It’s a place, as one historian has said, of “messy vitalities,” a stew of contradictions: coarse yet gentle, idealistic yet restrained, grappling with its promise, alternately sure and unsure of itself. Chicago, like America, is a kind of refuge for outsiders. It’s probably why Alex Kotlowitz found comfort there. He’s drawn to people on the outside who are trying to clean up—or at least make sense of—the mess on the inside. Perspective doesn’t come easy if you’re standing in the center. As with There Are No Children Here, Never a City So Real is not so much a tour of a place as a chronicle of its soul, its lifeblood. It is a tour of the people of Chicago, who have been the author’s guides into this city’s—and in a broader sense, this country’s—heart. From the Hardcover edition.
Every Goddamn Day
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Author : Neil Steinberg
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2022-10-12
Every Goddamn Day written by Neil Steinberg 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 2022-10-12 with History categories.
"Every day is the anniversary of some historical or cultural moment in the great city of Chicago. Whether it's the dedication of the Pablo Picasso sculpture downtown on August 15, or the arrest of Rod Blagojevich at his Ravenswood home on December 9, or a fire that possibly involved a cow on October 8, each day is redolent with the power of the past. Here, acerbic Chicago Sun-Times columnist Neil Steinberg takes us on a tour of the year, illuminating the famous, obscure, tragic, and hilarious elements that make each day in Chicago one to remember"--
Everywhere You Don T Belong
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Author : Gabriel Bump
language : en
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Release Date : 2020-02-04
Everywhere You Don T Belong written by Gabriel Bump and has been published by Algonquin Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-04 with Fiction categories.
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2020 Winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence “A comically dark coming-of-age story about growing up on the South Side of Chicago, but it’s also social commentary at its finest, woven seamlessly into the work . . . Bump’s meditation on belonging and not belonging, where or with whom, how love is a way home no matter where you are, is handled so beautifully that you don’t know he’s hypnotized you until he’s done.” —Tommy Orange, The New York Times Book Review In this alternately witty and heartbreaking debut novel, Gabriel Bump gives us an unforgettable protagonist, Claude McKay Love. Claude isn’t dangerous or brilliant—he’s an average kid coping with abandonment, violence, riots, failed love, and societal pressures as he steers his way past the signposts of youth: childhood friendships, basketball tryouts, first love, first heartbreak, picking a college, moving away from home. Claude just wants a place where he can fit. As a young black man born on the South Side of Chicago, he is raised by his civil rights–era grandmother, who tries to shape him into a principled actor for change; yet when riots consume his neighborhood, he hesitates to take sides, unwilling to let race define his life. He decides to escape Chicago for another place, to go to college, to find a new identity, to leave the pressure cooker of his hometown behind. But as he discovers, he cannot; there is no safe haven for a young black man in this time and place called America. Percolating with fierceness and originality, attuned to the ironies inherent in our twenty-first-century landscape, Everywhere You Don’t Belong marks the arrival of a brilliant young talent.
Tales Of Forgotten Chicago
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Author : Richard C Lindberg
language : en
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Release Date : 2020-07-28
Tales Of Forgotten Chicago written by Richard C Lindberg and has been published by Southern Illinois University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-28 with History categories.
Hidden gems from Chicago’s past Tales of Forgotten Chicago contains twenty-one fascinating, little-known stories about a great city and its people. Richard C. Lindberg has dug deeply to reveal lost historical events and hidden gems from Chicago’s past. Spanning the Civil War through the 1960s, the volume showcases forgotten crimes, punishments, and consequences: poisoned soup that nearly killed three hundred leading citizens, politicians, and business and religious leaders; a woman in showbiz and her street-thug husband whose checkered lives inspired a 1955 James Cagney movie; and the first police woman in Chicago, hired as a result of the senseless killing of a young factory girl in a racially tinged case of the 1880s. Also included are tales of industry and invention, such as America’s first automobile race, the haunting of a wealthy Gilded Age manufacturer’s mansion, and the identity of the telephone’s rightful inventor. Chapters on the history of early city landmarks spotlight the fight to save Lakefront Park and how “Lucky” Charlie Weeghman’s north side baseball park became Wrigley Field. Other chapters explore civic, cultural, and political happenings: the great Railroad Fairs of 1948 and 1949; Richard J. Daley’s revival of the St. Patrick’s Day parade; political disrupter Lar “America First” Daly; and the founding of the Special Olympics in Chicago by Anne Burke and others. Finally, some are just wonderful tales, such asa touching story about the sinking of Chicago's beloved Christmas tree ship. Engrossing and imaginative, this collection opens new windows into the past of the Windy City.
You Never Get It Back
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Author : Cara Blue Adams
language : en
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Release Date : 2021-12-15
You Never Get It Back written by Cara Blue Adams and has been published by University of Iowa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-15 with Fiction categories.
The linked stories in Cara Blue Adams’s precise and observant collection offer elegantly constructed glimpses of the life of Kate, a young woman from rural New England, moving between her childhood in the countryside of Vermont and her twenties and thirties in the northeast, southwest, and South in pursuit of a vocation, first as a research scientist and later as a writer. Place is a palpable presence: Boston in winter, Maine in summer, Virginia’s lush hillsides, the open New Mexico sky. Along the way, we meet Kate’s difficult bohemian mother and younger sister, her privileged college roommate, and the various men Kate dates as she struggles to define what she wants from the world on her own terms. Wryly funny and shot through with surprising flashes of anger, these smart, dreamy, searching stories show us a young woman grappling with social class, gender, ambition, violence, and the distance between longing and having.
Subversive Involvement In Disruption Of 1968 Democratic Party National Convention
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
Subversive Involvement In Disruption Of 1968 Democratic Party National Convention written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Democratic National Convention categories.
A Supposedly Fun Thing I Ll Never Do Again
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Author : David Foster Wallace
language : en
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Release Date : 2009-11-23
A Supposedly Fun Thing I Ll Never Do Again written by David Foster Wallace and has been published by Back Bay Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-23 with Humor categories.
These widely acclaimed essays from the author of Infinite Jest -- on television, tennis, cruise ships, and more -- established David Foster Wallace as one of the preeminent essayists of his generation. In this exuberantly praised book -- a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory to the supposed fun of traveling aboard a Caribbean luxury cruiseliner -- David Foster Wallace brings to nonfiction the same curiosity, hilarity, and exhilarating verbal facility that has delighted readers of his fiction, including the bestselling Infinite Jest.
Election Of William Lorimer
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee to Investigate the Election of William Lorimer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1912
Election Of William Lorimer written by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee to Investigate the Election of William Lorimer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1912 with Elections categories.
From Protest To President
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Author : George A Pruitt
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2022-12-09
From Protest To President written by George A Pruitt and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
From Protest to President describes an inspirational odyssey of a young, Black activist coming of age in Mississippi and Chicago in the tumultuous 1960s and '70s, culminating in a notable thirty-five-year presidency at Thomas Edison State University. From barbershop encounters with Malcolm X to death threats at Illinois State University and gunfire at Towson State, Pruitt provides a powerful narrative poised at the intersection of social justice, higher education and politics. He recounts leadership experiences at HBCUs and public universities across the country, as he advocated for autonomy at Morgan State and fought to preserve Tennessee State University. His steadfast activism, integrity and courage led to groundbreaking work in providing access to higher education for working adults and the military. From his days as a student protester in high school and college to his appearances on Capitol Hill, Pruitt has earned the reputation as a candid and influential leader in higher education.