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Chicago in Quotations
Stuart Shea
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Description for Chicago in Quotations
Hardcover. This book offers candid views of an extraordinary town, which has attracted citizens from all over Europe and the rest of the world. They have made the city what it is today - and written about it variously with affection, loyalty, disgust and amazement. Series: In Quotations. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; DQ; WTM; WZG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 115 x 88. .
‘I have struck a city– a real city – and they call it Chicago ... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages,’ so wrote Rudyard Kipling on his tour of America in 1899. From these inauspicious beginnings rose the ‘windy city’, home to the first skyscraper, gateway to the Great Lakes, birthplace of modern advertising and shorthand for stories about violent crime during America’s prohibition and Al Capone’s dominance of the ganglands. This book offers candid views of an extraordinary town, which has attracted citizens from all over Europe and the rest of the ... Read more
‘I have struck a city– a real city – and they call it Chicago ... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages,’ so wrote Rudyard Kipling on his tour of America in 1899. From these inauspicious beginnings rose the ‘windy city’, home to the first skyscraper, gateway to the Great Lakes, birthplace of modern advertising and shorthand for stories about violent crime during America’s prohibition and Al Capone’s dominance of the ganglands. This book offers candid views of an extraordinary town, which has attracted citizens from all over Europe and the rest of the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
Condition
New
Series
In Quotations
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781851244119
SKU
V9781851244119
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About Stuart Shea
Stuart Shea is an editor and contributor to The Baseball Encyclopedia: The Complete and Definitive Record of Major League Baseball, The Emerald Guide to Baseball, Who’s Who in Baseball, and SABR’s Baseball Research Journal. He lives in Chicago, twenty-four blocks north of Wrigley Field.
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