9780684831381
City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America
Donald L. Miller
ISBN 13: 9780684831381
Publisher: Touchstone Books
Publication Date: 1997
Binding: Softcover
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Thoroughly researched and magnificently written, "City of the Century" captures all the drama of Chicago's growth from a desolate fur-trading post in the 1830s to a metropolis that by 1890 rivaled New York City. "Brims with life, with people, surprises, and with stories--and stories within stories--all worth telling".--David McCullough, author of "Truman". of photos.
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"...Mr. Miller studies the success of empire builders like Armour, Swift, Pullman, and Sears. He understands the human costs of their advances..."
Douglas A. Sylva, New York Times Book Review, 05/19/1996
Review:"...when Chicago looks about as old and wrinkled as any of the cities on the East Coast, it takes a leap of imagination to think of it as young and buoyant and free from the rigidities of an earlier America. But Miller...negotiates that leap with grace, narrative power, and a wealth of convincing detail....He brings to the job a real sensitivity to the way Chicagoans themselves thought about their time and place."
Alan Ehrenhalt, Washington Post Book World, 06/09/1996
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