
Chicago by the Book
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Chicago by the Book profiles 101 landmark publications about Chicago from the past 170 years that have helped define the city and its image. Each title-carefully selected by the Caxton Club, a venerable Chicago bibliophilic organization-is the focus of an illustrated essay by a leading scholar, writer, or bibliophile.
Arranged chronologically to show the history of both the city and its books, the essays can be read in order from Mrs. John H. Kinzie's 1844 Narrative of the Massacre of Chicago to Sara Paretsky's 2015 crime novel Brush Back. Or one can dip in and out, savoring reflections on the arts, sports, crime, race relations, urban planning, politics, and even Mrs. O'Leary's legendary cow. The selections do not shy from the underside of the city, recognizing that its grit and graft have as much a place in the written imagination as soaring odes and boosterism. As Neil Harris observes in his introduction, "Even when Chicagoans celebrate their hearth and home, they do so while acknowledging deep-seated flaws." At the same time, this collection heartily reminds us all of what makes Chicago, as Norman Mailer called it, the "great American city."
With essays from, among others, Ira Berkow, Thomas Dyja, Ann Durkin Keating, Alex Kotlowitz, Toni Preckwinkle, Frank Rich, Don Share, Carl Smith, Regina Taylor, Garry Wills, and William Julius Wilson; and featuring works by Saul Bellow, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sandra Cisneros, Clarence Darrow, Erik Larson, David Mamet, Studs Terkel, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Frank Lloyd Wright, and many more.
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- Intro
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Listing Chicago by Neil Harris
- 1. Juliette A. Kinzie, Narrative of the Massacre at Chicago, 1844 / Ann Durkin Keating
- 2. A. J. Vaas, "Zouave Cadets Quickstep," 1860 / Alison Hinderliter
- 3. James W. Sheahan, Chicago Illustrated 1830-1866, 1866-67 / David Buisseret
- 4. John M. Wing, The Great Chicago Lake Tunnel, 1867 / Carl Smith
- 5. John S. Wright, Chicago: Past, Present, Future, 1868 / Eric Slauter
- 6. Olmsted, Vaux & Co., Report Accompanying the Plan for Laying Out the South Park, 1871 / Victoria Post Ranney
- 7. Edward P. Roe, Barriers Burned Away, 1872 / Neil Harris
- 8. Montgomery Ward and Sears, Roebuck , Catalogues, 1872-1985, 1894-2003 / Russell Lewis
- 9. The Lakeside Annual Directory of the City of Chicago, 1875-1917 / Rick Fizdale
- 10. Fergus' Historical Series Relating to Chicago and Illinois, 1876-1903 / Russell Lewis
- 11. Alfred T. Andreas, History of Chicago from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, 1884-86 / Kathleen Neils Conzen
- 12. John P. Altgeld, Reasons for Pardoning Fielden, Neebe and Schwab, 1893 / Ron Grossman
- 13. Henry B. Fuller, The Cliff-Dwellers: A Novel, 1893 / Alice Schreyer
- 14. Rand, McNally & Co.'s Bird's-Eye Views and Guide to Chicago, 1893 / Kenneth Nebenzahl
- 15. Ida B. Wells, The Reason Why the Colored American Is Not in the World's Columbian Exposition, 1893 / Toni Preckwinkle
- 16. William H. Carwa rdine, The Pullman Strike, 1894 / Leon Fink
- 17. William T. Stead, If Christ Came to Chicago!, 1894 / Martin E. Marty
- 18. Herbert S. Stone, The Chap-Book, 1894-98 / Paul F. Gehl
- 19. Rossiter Johnson, A History of the World's Columbian Exposition, 1897-98 / Neil Harris
- 20. Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley in Peace and War, 1898 / Charles Fanning
- 21. John Dewey, The School and Society, 1899 / Michael P. Wakeford
- 22. Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie, 1900 / Elliott J. Gorn
- 23. Frank Norris, The Epic of the Wheat: The Pit, 1903 / Timothy Spears
- 24. The Lakeside Classics, 1903-present / Kim Coventry
- 25. Marshall Ev erett, The Great Chicago Theater Disaster, 1904 / Neil Harris
- 26. Dw ight Heald Perkins, Report of the Special Park Commission on the Subject of a Metropolitan Park System, 1905 / Julia Bachrach
- 27. Up ton Sinclair, The Jungle, 1906 / Dominic A. Pacyga
- 28. George P. Up ton, Musical Memories: My Recollections of Celebrities of the Half Century 1850-1900, 1908 / Celia Hilliard
- 29. Daniel H. Burnham and Edwa rd H. Bennett, Plan of Chicago, 1909 / Carl Smith
- 30. Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull-House, with Autobiographical Notes, 1910 / Rima Lunin Schultz
- 31. Frank Lloyd Wright, Ausgeführte Bauten und Entwürfe, 1910-11 / David Van Zanten
- 32. Ada and Minna Everleigh, The Everleigh Club Illustrated, 1911 / Edward C. Hirschland
- 33. Walter D. Moody, Wacker's Manual of the Plan of Chicago, 1911 / Edward C. Hirschland
- 34. Poetry, A Magazine of Verse, 1912-present / Don Share
- 35. The Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of the International Exhibition of Modern Art, 1913 / Paul Kruty
- 36. Ring W. Lardner, You Know Me Al, 1916 / Lester Munson
- 37. Carl Sandburg, Chicago Poems, 1916 / Rosanna Warren
- 38. Alfred B. Yeomans, City Residential Land Development, 1916 / Daniel Bluestone
- 39. Chicago Commission on Race Relations, The Negro in Chicago: A Study of Race Relations and a Race Riot, 1922 / Adam Green
- 40. Fred Fisher, "Chicago: That Todd'ling Town," 1922 / D . W. K r umme l
- 41. Ben Hecht, A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago, 1922 / Celia Hilliard
- 42. The International Competition for a New Administration Building for the Chicago Tribune, 1923 / Katherine Solomonson
- 43. Weird Tales, 1923-54 / Carlo Rotella
- 44. Clarence Darrow, The Plea of Clarence Darrow in Defense of Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold Jr. on Trial for Murder, 1924 / Gary T. Johnson
- 45. Louis H. Sullivan, A System of Architectural Ornament, 1924 / David Van Zanten
- 46. Robert Herrick, Chimes, 1926 / Hanna Holborn Gray
- 47. Amos Alonzo Stagg and Wesley Winans Stout, Touchdown!, 1927 / Robin Lester
- 48. Frederic Thrasher, The Gang, 1927 / Andrew V. Papachristos
- 49. Baird & Warner, Inc., A Portfolio of Fine Apartment Homes, 1928 / Teri J. Edelstein
- 50. Harvey Warren Zorbaugh, The Gold Coast and the Slum, 1929 / Andrew Abbott
- 51. Margaret Anderson, My 30 Years' War: An Autobiography, 1930 / Liesl Olson
- 52. Hal Andrews, Chicago Gang Wars in Pictures: X Marks the Spot, 1930 / William Mullen
- 53. Dana, Melville, Poe, and Thoreau, Four American Books Campaign, 1930 / Kim Coventry
- 54. James T. Farrell, Studs Lonigan: A Trilogy, 1932-35 / Bruce Hatton Boyer
- 55. Esquire: The Magazine for Men, 1933-present / Teri J. Edelstein
- 56. Kaufmann & Fabry, A Century of Progress International Exposition Chicago, 1933-1934, 1933-34 / Edward C. Hirschland
- 57. Down Beat, 1934-present / Steve Tomashefsky
- 58. Edith Abbott, The Tenements of Chicago, 1908-1935, 1936 / Henry C. Binford
- 59. Robert Ma ynard Hutchins, The Higher Learning in America, 1936 / John W. Boyer
- 60. Bessie Louise Pierce, A History of Chicago, 1937-57 / Perry R. Duis
- 61. Illinois: A Descriptive and Historical Guide, 1939 / John Blew
- 62. Richard Wright, Native Son, 1940 / Davarian L. Baldwin
- 63. Chicago Plan Commission, Forty-Four Cities in the City of Chicago, 1942 / Michael P. Conzen
- 64. Gwendolyn Brooks, A Street in Bronzeville, 1945 / Sara Paretsky
- 65. St. Clair Drak e and Horace R. Cayton, Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City, 1945 / William Julius Wilson
- 66. Ebony, 1945-present / Robert H. Jordan Jr.
- 67. László Moholy-Nagy, Vision in Motion, 1947 / Lynn Martin Windsor
- 68. Chicago Railroad Fair Official Guide Book and Program for the Pageant 'Wheels a-Rolling,' 1948 / Will Hansen
- 69. Ralph H. Burke, Master Plan of Chicago Orchard (Douglas) Airport, 1948 / Charles Waldheim
- 70. Frank A. Randall, History of the Development of Building Construction in Chicago, 1949 / Daniel Bluestone
- 71. Nelson Algren, Chicago: City on the Make, 1951 / Alex Kotlowitz
- 72. 860-880 Lake Shore Drive, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Architect, ca. 1951 / John Ronan
- 73. Robert Maynard Hutchins and Mortimer J. Adler, Great Books of the Western World, 1952 / Tim Lacy
- 74. A. J. Liebling, Chicago: The Second City, 1952 / Thomas Dyja
- 75. Lloyd Wendt and Herman Kogan, Give the Lady What She Wants! The Story of Marshall Field & Company, 1952 / Leslie Goddard
- 76. Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March: A Novel, 1953 / David Auburn
- 77. Playboy, 1953-present / Timothy J. Gilfoyle
- 78. Laura Fermi, Atoms in the Family: My Life with Enrico Fermi, 1954 / Daniel Meyer
- 79. Meyer Levin, Compulsion, 1956 / Nina Barrett
- 80. Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun: A Drama in Three Acts, 1959 / Regina Taylor
- 81. Eliot Asinof, Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series, 1963 / Ira Berkow
- 82. Carl W. Condit, The Chicago School of Architecture, 1964 / Robert Bruegmann
- 83. The Prairie School Review, 1964-81 / John Blew
- 84. Studs Terkel, Division Street: America, 1967 / Garry Wills
- 85. Norman Mailer, Miami and the Siege of Chicago, 1968 / Frank Rich
- 86. Ira J. Bach, Chicago on Foot, 1969 / Jay Pridmore
- 87. Ya suhiro Ishimoto, Chicago, Chicago, 1969 / Stephen Daiter
- 88. Harold M. Mayer and Richard C. Wade, Chicago: Growth of a Metropolis, 1969 / Pauline Saliga
- 89. Saul D. Alinsky, Rules for Radicals, 1971 / Don Rose
- 90. Mike Royko, Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago, 1971 / Paul M. Green
- 91. Lois Wille, Forever Open, Clear and Free: The Struggle for Chicago's Lakefront, 1972 / Julia Bachrach
- 92. Mike Rowe, Chicago Breakdown, 1973 / Paul Garon
- 93. David Mamet, Sexual Perversity in Chicago and The Duck Variations, 1978 / Chris Jones
- 94. Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street, 1984 / Carlos Tortolero
- 95. William Cronon, Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West, 1991 / Kathleen Neils Conzen
- 96. Alex Kotlowitz, There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America, 1991 / D Bradford Hunt
- 97. Chris Ware, Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, 2000 / Hillary Chute
- 98. Bernard Sahlins, Days and Nights at the Second City: A Memoir, 2001 / Kelly Leonard
- 99. Richard F. Bales, The Great Chicago Fire and the Myth of Mrs. O'Leary's Cow, 2002 / Glenn Humphreys
- 100. Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City, 2003 / Victoria Lautman
- 101. Sara Paretsky, Brush Back, 2015 / Gini Hartzmark
- Note to the Reader
- Notes
- Contributors' Biographies
- Donors
- Photo Credits
- Index
- About The Caxton Club
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