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. |
من داخل الكتاب
النتائج 1-3 من 83
الصفحة 19
... civic buildings along its downtown lakefront . The city that critics compared to a gigantic real estate lottery , where everything was for sale , even its streets , un- dertook some of the most ambitious public improvement projects of ...
... civic buildings along its downtown lakefront . The city that critics compared to a gigantic real estate lottery , where everything was for sale , even its streets , un- dertook some of the most ambitious public improvement projects of ...
الصفحة 355
... civic causes . There was also in Chicago a close alliance of artists and entrepre- neurs . Writers , musicians , architects , and sculptors dined at the tables of reaper and railroad magnates , and Daniel Burnham and John Root were not ...
... civic causes . There was also in Chicago a close alliance of artists and entrepre- neurs . Writers , musicians , architects , and sculptors dined at the tables of reaper and railroad magnates , and Daniel Burnham and John Root were not ...
الصفحة 387
... civic causes , organizations born in the cigar - scented parlors of their downtown clubs . These elite clubs began to appear with the passing of the founding generation , men like William Ogden , Isaac Arnold , and Gurdon Saltonstall ...
... civic causes , organizations born in the cigar - scented parlors of their downtown clubs . These elite clubs began to appear with the passing of the founding generation , men like William Ogden , Isaac Arnold , and Gurdon Saltonstall ...
المحتوى
Preface | 15 |
City of Dreamers and Doers | 24 |
Didnt Expect No Town | 48 |
حقوق النشر | |
14 من الأقسام الأخرى غير ظاهرة
طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
Addams American architects architecture Armour Art Institute Auditorium Autobiography Avenue Baker became began Bertha Palmer building built Burnham Burnham and Root called canal cars Carter Harrison century Charles Chicago Fire Chicago River Chicagoans city's civic Columbian Exposition Company construction cultural downtown Dreiser engineering ethnic fair fire Frank Lloyd Wright George Pullman Gurdon Harper Harrison Haymarket Hubbard Hull-House Hutchinson Illinois immigrants Indian industrial Irish Jane Addams Jenney John Joliet Kinzie labor lake land later lived Louis Sullivan Marquette Marshall Field Michigan modern neighborhood North Ogden Olmsted Palmer Papers Park Philip Armour political Potter Palmer prairie Press Quoted rail railroad reformers Report reprint Root saloons skyscraper social South steel story Street thousand tion town trade Univ urban Ward West William women workers World's Columbian Exposition wrote York young