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12 produkter
First Lady of Olympic Track
The Life and Times of Betty Robinson
Av Joe Gergen
Häftad, 2014
259 kr
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The 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam were the first in which women over the objections of many, including Pope Pius XI and the founder of the modern Olympics, Baron Pierre de Coubertin were allowed to run in the marquee track events.Equally remarkable is the story behind the first female gold medal …
My Chicago
Av Jane Byrne
Häftad, 2004
229 kr
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This is the story of Jane Byrne's rise from campaign worker to the mayor's office, all within the bruising arena of Chicago politics. Part sociopolitical history, part memoir, it begins with a history of the city and her early life before she enters politics and service in the Chicago machine.
Challenging the Daley Machine
A Chicago Alderman's Memoir
Inbunden, 2005
304 kr
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In 1955, south-sider Leon M. Despres was elected to the Chicago City Council-the same year that Paddy Bauler famously uttered that ""Chicago ain't ready for reform."" Ready or not, Chicago got twenty years of reform efforts from Despres, one of the few independents in the council and the most …
Sidewalks
Av Rick Kogan
Inbunden, 2006
383 kr
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Few people know Chicago as do Rick Kogan and Charles Osgood, and their ""Sidewalks"" column for the ""Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine"" is a tour of the city like no other, taking readers to the off-beat and quintessential spots that give Chicago its character - that make its inhabitants feel at …
Dawn Clark Netsch
A Political Life
Av Northwestern University Press
Inbunden, 2010
333 kr
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Illinois Democratic politics has recently produced the most skilled and inspirational politician in memory...and has also reminded us of the need for further reform. It is fitting, then, that the latest installment of the ""Chicago Lives"" series turns to Dawn Clark Netsch, a leading reformer of …
Harold!
Photographs from the Harold Washington Years
Häftad, 2007
223 kr
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This handsome book captures in words and pictures the powerful emotions that circled around one man in Chicago in the early 1980s: Harold Washington. More than one hundred pictures, from candid shots on the campaign trail to triumphant public appearances, give readers a window onto a man who won …
Chicago Portraits
Häftad, 2012
384 kr
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The famous, the infamous, and the unjustly forgotten - all receive their due in this biographical dictionary of the people who have made Chicago one of the world’s great cities. Here are the life stories—provided in short, entertaining capsules - of Chicago’s cultural giants as well as the …
Ghosts of Chicago
Stories
Av John McNally
Häftad, 2010
200 kr
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Chicago is famously a ‘city of neighbourhoods’ that somehow balances metropolitan and parochial life. In the seventeen vividly rendered stories in Ghosts of Chicago, John McNally likewise captures the poignancy of both the shared experiences of a city and the interior details of his everyday …
Long Way Home
A Young Man Lost in the System and the Two Women Who Found Him
Häftad, 2012
229 kr
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By all accounts, Jovan Mosley was a good kid. He was working on a way out of his tough Chicago neighborhood and had been accepted at Ohio State University when he was forced to confess to a murder he did not commit. He then spent five years and ten months in jail without a trial. His efforts to …
Hog Butcher
A Novel
Häftad, 2014
233 kr
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Its summer on the South Side of Chicago, and ten-year-old boys Earl and Wilford are frequently courtside watching their role model Nathaniel “Cornbread” Hamilton as he prepares to leave for college on a basketball scholarship. Their world comes crashing down in an alley when two cops one white, one …
Knocking Down Barriers
My Fight for Black America
Av Truman K. Gibson Jr., Steve Huntley
Häftad, 2021
407 kr
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Winner, 2006 Illinois State Historical Society Book Award Certificate of Excellence Recipient, 2007 Hyde Park Historical Society Paul Cornell AwardSixty years ago, when Truman Gibson reported for duty at the War Department, Washington, D.C. was a southern city in its unbending segregation as well …
Sidewalks
Portraits of Chicago
Av Rick Kogan
Häftad, 2008
251 kr
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Rick Kogan and Charles Osgood's ""Sidewalks"" column for the ""Chicago Tribune"" Sunday Magazine is a tour of the city of Chicago like no other. Accompanied by Osgood's evocative color photographs, Kogan's pieces revisit the lost places and people of Chicago. In this collection you will find an …
