Fabulous Chicago: A Great City's History and People

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- notorious Al Capone. Entrepreneurial giants,gangsters & mayors of legend, poets, like Sandburg & MacLeish, architects,Frank Lloyd Wright -- all belong to Chicago, and populate this incredible book. From the Everleigh Club brothel to the patriotic song of George F. Root, Fabulous Chicago is a history that is alive with the unbelievable spirit of one of the world's great cities so popular is been reprinted twice.--see pictures maybe this will do it maybe it won't-sent media mail - questions answered via customer service phone/ emailing message services -gift delivery instructions-alternative expedited deliveries need to be requested & adjusted price wise...-you get the copy you were viewing carefully packed to protect it from damage in transit--.Fabulous Chicago: A Great City's History and People- -Emmett Dedmon- Pub-Random House ISBN 1891053639, 9781891053634 359 pages- Subjects History ' United States ' State & Local ' Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) –Ruth Reaser..LAXVespa Los Angeles /Culver City-- current ISBN furnished to make it easy to find the book- 3489 Fabulous Chicago BMK 37 old