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Philadelphia is a hard mistress when it comes to honoring native talent, and the city has more than its fair share of notable figures. Consider colorful politicians like Frank Rizzo and Richardson Dilworth, international celebrities like Grace Kelly, sports legends like Connie Mack, Philadelphia Museum of Art icons like Anne dHarnoncourt, or national radio personalities like Terry Gross. Business tycoons such as John Wanamaker and Russell Conwell, founder of Temple University, made many show more contributions to the city. Pearl Buck, author of The Good Earth, and Christopher Morley, Americas G.K. Chesterton, created legacies of their own. Other legends like the nearly forgotten Agnes Repplier, a world-famous essayist and contemporary of Henry James, and poet Daniel Hoffman, the designated US poet laureate in 19731974, have helped enrich the citys literary reputation. There are Marian Anderson, Mario Lanza, and Hollywood actor Kevin Bacon, whose fame is equaled by his city planner father, Edmund. Architects like Frank Furness, Louis Kahn, and Vincent Kling helped transform the city into an international destination. And there are many notables looming outside the margins of this book, waiting for their day of discovery. show lessTags
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As always with such a book, one might quibble with who's included and who's not but putting that aside, the short biographies were not all the usual listing of accomplishments but also some colorful side stories. Quick and enjoyable.
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Thom Nickels is a Philadelphia-based author/journalist/poet with five published books. His "Two Novellas: Walking Water & After All This" has been nominated for a Lambda Literary Award and a Hugo Award. Mr. Nickels writes for the Lambda Book Report and is a weekly columnist for Pridevision TV in Toronto
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Common Knowledge
- Important places
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Original language
- English
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- Genres
- History, Nonfiction, Travel
- DDC/MDS
- 974.811 — History & geography History of North America Northeastern United States (New England and Middle Atlantic states) Pennsylvania Southeast counties; Philadelphia and Chester group Philadelphia (co. and city)
- LCC
- F158.68 .C43 .N535 — Local History of the United States, Canada and Latin America United States local history Pennsylvania
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