Fabulous Chicago: A Great City's History and People - 1953

vintage hardcover first printing 1953 – dust jacket does have quite a bit of wear it's got just about every thing- chips tears minutia creases however underneath and it's just because the dust jacket in this job the book is in excellent very good condition I would rate dust jacket is just barely acceptable or a throwaway or candidate plasticine cover protected for Infinium; interior the book is clean without markings in wonderful compendia of society in Chicago in the air author is a newspaperman the Chicago Sun-Times in very familiar storytelling in the history of the city-vibrant people who built it. The Yankees coming west to gamble fortunes on the Board of Trade, the Swifts & Amours, Fields & McCormicks, -new immigrants who worked- stockyards, stores & railroads -- they built Chicago out of the prairie mud, and built it again when the Great Fire destroyed it. Political turmoil, of corruption, of social striving and reform- Haymarket Massacre- Pullman Strike-Jane Adams of Hull House-… Leer más