City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of AmericaSimon & Schuster, 1996 - 704 من الصفحات Thoroughly researched and magnificently written, City of the Century captures all the drama of Chicago's growth from a desolate fur-trading post in the 1830s to a metropolis that by 1890 rivaled New York City. "Brims with life, with people, surprises, and with stories--and stories within stories--all worth telling."--David McCullough, author of Truman. of photos. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved. |
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... Dreiser , who had lived in Chicago with his family briefly in the early 1880s but returned on his own in 1887 to " a world of hope and opportunity . " Dreiser is the only American writer at the turn of the century who can be compared ...
... Dreiser , who had lived in Chicago with his family briefly in the early 1880s but returned on his own in 1887 to " a world of hope and opportunity . " Dreiser is the only American writer at the turn of the century who can be compared ...
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... Dreiser presents the oncoming consumption culture and the “ drag of desire ” it stimulated in shoppers like Carrie , who wanted what they had never seen before at the very moment they set eyes on it in the new emporiums of enticement ...
... Dreiser presents the oncoming consumption culture and the “ drag of desire ” it stimulated in shoppers like Carrie , who wanted what they had never seen before at the very moment they set eyes on it in the new emporiums of enticement ...
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... Dreiser recalled the powerful pull of Eugene Field's " Sharps and Flats " column : " These trenchant bits on local street scenes , institutions , characters , functions all moved me as noth- ing hitherto had . For to me Chicago at this ...
... Dreiser recalled the powerful pull of Eugene Field's " Sharps and Flats " column : " These trenchant bits on local street scenes , institutions , characters , functions all moved me as noth- ing hitherto had . For to me Chicago at this ...
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Preface | 15 |
City of Dreamers and Doers | 24 |
Didnt Expect No Town | 48 |
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