Chicago in the Fifties: Remembering Life in the Loop and the Neighborhoods

A nostalgic look at Chicago during the 1950s,with chapters entitled Life in the Neighborhoods, Let's Go Downtown, Growing Up in the City, The Sporting Life, and Entertainment in the City. The book has interviews with 65 current and former Chicagoans,including Hugh Hefner, Shelley Berman, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Mike Wallace, Hugh Downs, Mort Sahl, Rich Melman, Warner Saunders, Jack Rosenberg, Georgie Anne Geyer, US District Judge Charles Kocoras,Chuck Schaden, Billy Pierce, Carmen Salvino and Johnny Morris. The book also includes more than 200 duotone, black and white photographs.

The authors, Neal Samors and Michael Williams, have collaborated on "The Old Chicago Neighborhood," "Real Chicago," and "Real Chicago Sports." They are lifelong Chicagoans and dedicated this book to describing what life was like in and around the city in the 1950s.