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Loading... City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of Americaby Donald L. Miller
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Long in the shadow of New York City, Chicago has struggled to carve a place in the American conscious. City of The Century, never boring, staid or repetitive, is the antidote. Much more fasinating than Erik Larson's over-rated Devil In The White City, City of The Century provides a complete picture of Chicago from the early days of swampy, wetlands settlement to the advent of the Board of Trade. Just like the city of its title, this books is fulfilling and unpretentious. (  )rbtanger | Mar 8, 2007 |   0.008 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0684831384, Paperback)It's hard to believe that as late as 1830, Chicago was a desolate fur-trading outpost. Within half a century, it become a manufacturing, agriculture and industrial center and the railroad capital of the country. Donald L. Miller, a history professor at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, chronicles the evolution of the "Windy City" and the people who made their mark in it. From railroad entrepreneur George Pullman, to retailers Richard Sears and Alvah Roebuck, to reaper inventor Cyrus McCormick and architect Frank Lloyd Wright, Chicago was built by innovators. With its system of mass transit, regimented work force, diverse immigrant groups and historic battles between private and public good, Chicago symbolizes the emergence of modern American life.(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:11 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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