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Blues Dream of Billy Boy Arnold
Av Billy Boy Arnold, Kim Field
Inbunden, 2021
307 kr
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Simply put, Billy Boy Arnold is one of the last men standing from the Chicago blues scene’s raucous heyday. What’s more, unlike most artists in this electrifying melting pot, who were Southern transplants, Arnold—a harmonica master who shared stages with Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters, and Howlin’ Wolf, …
Fire and Clay
How Bricks Reveal the Hidden History of Chicago
Av Will Quam
Inbunden, 2026
246 kr
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A remarkable exploration of Chicago’s architectural history through the humble brick. By the late 1920s, at its peak of brick making and consumption, Chicago was making over a billion bricks a year for its buildings and importing almost another billion nicer face bricks for their front facades. …
Sovereignty and the Responsibility to Protect
A New History
Häftad, 2013
610 kr
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In 2011, the United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 1973, authorizing its member states to take measures to protect Libyan civilians from Muammar Gadhafi's forces. In invoking the "responsibility to protect," the resolution draws on the principle that sovereign states are responsible …
You Were Never in Chicago
Häftad, 2013
189 kr
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In 1952 the New Yorker published a three-part essay by A. J. Liebling in which he dubbed Chicago the "Second City." From garbage collection to the skyline, nothing escaped Liebling's withering gaze. Among the outraged responses from Chicago residents was one that Liebling described as the …
Bitten by the Blues
The Alligator Records Story
Av Bruce Iglauer, Patrick A. Roberts
Inbunden, 2018
290 kr
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It started with the searing sound of a slide careening up the neck of an electric guitar. In 1970, twenty-three-year-old Bruce Iglauer walked into Florence's Lounge, in the heart of Chicago's South Side, and was overwhelmed by the joyous, raw Chicago blues of Hound Dog Taylor and the HouseRockers. …
Friends Disappear
The Battle for Racial Equality in Evanston
Av Mary Barr
Häftad, 2014
316 kr
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Mary Barr thinks a lot about the old photograph hanging on her refrigerator door. In it, she and a dozen or so of her friends from the Chicago suburb of Evanston sit on a porch. It's 1974, the summer after they graduated from Nichols Middle School, and what strikes her immediately-aside from the …
Third City
Chicago and American Urbanism
Häftad, 2015
193 kr
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Our traditional image of Chicago-as a gritty metropolis carved into ethnically defined enclaves where the game of machine politics overshadows its ends-is such a powerful shaper of the city's identity that many of its closest observers fail to notice that a new Chicago has emerged over the past two …
World Is Always Coming to an End
Pulling Together and Apart in a Chicago Neighborhood
Inbunden, 2019
265 kr
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An urban neighborhood remakes itself every day—and unmakes itself, too. Houses and stores and streets define it in one way. But it’s also people—the people who make it their home, some eagerly, others grudgingly. A neighborhood can thrive or it can decline, and neighbors move in and move out. …
Wagon and Other Stories from the City
Av Martin Preib
Häftad, 2011
199 kr
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Martin Preib is an officer in the Chicago Police Department - a beat cop whose first assignment as a rookie policeman was working on the wagon that picks up the dead. Inspired by Preib's daily life on the job, "The Wagon and Other Stories from the City" chronicles the outer and inner lives of both …
Bitten by the Blues
The Alligator Records Story
Av Bruce Iglauer, Patrick A Roberts
Häftad, 2019
244 kr
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It started with the searing sound of a slide careening up the neck of an electric guitar. In 1970, twenty-three-year-old Bruce Iglauer walked into Florence's Lounge, in the heart of Chicago's South Side, and was overwhelmed by the joyous, raw Chicago blues of Hound Dog Taylor and the HouseRockers. …
Hearing Happiness
Deafness Cures in History
Inbunden, 2020
273 kr
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At the age of four, Jaipreet Virdi's world went silent. A severe case of meningitis left her alive but deaf, suddenly treated differently by everyone. Her deafness downplayed by society and doctors, she struggled to "pass" as hearing for most of her life. Countless cures, treatments, and …
World Is Always Coming to an End
Pulling Together and Apart in a Chicago Neighborhood
Häftad, 2020
175 kr
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An urban neighborhood remakes itself every day--and unmakes itself, too. Houses and stores and streets define it in one way. But it's also people--the people who make it their home, some eagerly, others grudgingly. A neighborhood can thrive or it can decline, and neighbors move in and move out. …
Plan of Chicago
Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City
Av Carl Smith
Häftad, 2007
158 kr
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Arguably the most influential document in the history of urban planning, Daniel Burnham's "1909 Plan of Chicago", co-authored by Edward Bennett and produced in collaboration with the Commercial Club of Chicago, proposed many of the city's most distinctive features. Carl Smith's fascinating history …
Everyone against Us
Public Defenders and the Making of American Justice
Inbunden, 2023
202 kr
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A former public defender testifies to the vivid human suffering at the heart of America’s criminal justice system. As a public defender, Allen Goodman faced cross-examination from family and friends every day: How could he work to help criminals? How could he live with himself? Presumed guilty by …
Dirty Waters
Confessions of Chicago's Last Harbor Boss
Av R. J. Nelson
Häftad, 2023
208 kr
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A wry, no-holds-barred memoir of Nelson’s time controlling some of Chicago's most beautiful spots while facing some of its ugliest traditions.In 1987, the city of Chicago hired a former radical college chaplain to clean up rampant corruption on the waterfront. R. J. Nelson thought he was used to …
Can I Get a Witness!
Faith, Family, and Chicago Gospel Music
Av Steven B. Dolins, Gregory Donald Gay
Inbunden, 2026
1024 kr
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The remarkable story of pastor Donald Gay and his family’s lasting contributions to gospel music and Chicago culture.When the preacher Gregory Donald Gay joined his sisters onstage at Carnegie Hall in 1950, on a sold-out bill they shared with Mahalia Jackson and the Clara Ward Singers, he became a …
Can I Get a Witness!
Faith, Family, and Chicago Gospel Music
Av Steven B. Dolins, Gregory Donald Gay
Häftad, 2026
184 kr
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The remarkable story of pastor Donald Gay and his family’s lasting contributions to gospel music and Chicago culture.When the preacher Gregory Donald Gay joined his sisters onstage at Carnegie Hall in 1950, on a sold-out bill they shared with Mahalia Jackson and the Clara Ward Singers, he became a …
Scream! Bleed! Take Off Your Clothes!
Stuart Gordon and Chicago’s Organic Theater Company
Av Mary Griswold, Cordis Heard m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
273 kr
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A captivating firsthand account of Chicago’s groundbreaking, tumultuous Organic Theater Company.When the founder of the Organic Theater Company died in 2020, the Chicago Tribune asked, “Did one person invent Chicago theater? If so, it was Stuart Gordon.” And yet, this iconic theater group is …
Third City
Chicago and American Urbanism
Inbunden, 2010
219 kr
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Our traditional image of Chicago - as a gritty metropolis carved into ethnically defined enclaves where the game of machine politics overshadows its ends - is such a powerful shaper of the city's identity that many of its closest observers fail to notice that a new Chicago has emerged over the past …
Friends Disappear
The Battle for Racial Equality in Evanston
Av Mary Barr
Inbunden, 2014
841 kr
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Mary Barr thinks a lot about the old photograph hanging on her refrigerator door. In it, she and a dozen or so of her friends from the Chicago suburb of Evanston sit on a porch. It's 1974, the summer after they graduated from Nichols Middle School, and what strikes her immediately-aside from the …
Soldier Field
A Stadium and Its City
Inbunden, 2009
289 kr
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Sports fans nationwide know Soldier Field as the home of the Chicago Bears. For decades its signature columns provided an iconic backdrop for gridiron matches, but few realize that the stadium has been much more than that. "Soldier Field: A Stadium and Its City" explores how this amphitheater …
Wagon and Other Stories from the City
Av Martin Preib
Inbunden, 2010
235 kr
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Martin Preib is an officer in the Chicago Police Department - a beat cop whose first assignment as a rookie policeman was working on the wagon that picks up the dead. Inspired by Preib's daily life on the job, "The Wagon and Other Stories from the City" chronicles the outer and inner lives of both …
Hack
Stories from a Chicago Cab
Inbunden, 2011
196 kr
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Cabdrivers and their yellow taxis are as much a part of the cityscape as the high-rise buildings and the subway. We hail them without thought after a wearying day at the office or an exuberant night on the town. And, undoubtedly, taxi drivers have stories to tell - of farcical local politics, of …
You Were Never in Chicago
Inbunden, 2012
253 kr
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In 1952 the "New Yorker" published a three-part essay by A.J. Liebling in which he dubbed "Chicago the Second City". From garbage collection to the skyline, nothing escaped Liebling's withering gaze. Among the outraged responses from Chicago residents was one that Liebling described as the …
Our Nazi
An American Suburb’s Encounter with Evil
Inbunden, 2024
228 kr
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The first book to lay bare the life of a Nazi camp guard who settled in a Chicago suburb and to explore how his community and others responded to discoveries of Nazis in their midst. Reinhold Kulle seemed like the perfect school employee. But in 1982, as his retirement neared, his long-concealed …
