City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of AmericaSimon & Schuster, 03/04/1997 - 704 من الصفحات The epic of Chicago is the story of the emergence of modern America. Here, witness Chicago's growth from a desolate fur-trading post in the 1830s to one of the world's most explosively alive cities by 1900. Donald Miller's powerful narrative embraces it all: Chicago's wild beginnings, its reckless growth, its natural calamities (especially the Great Fire of 1871), its raucous politics, its empire-building businessmen, its world-transforming architecture, its rich mix of cultures, its community of young writers and journalists, and its staggering engineering projects—which included the reversal of the Chicago River and raising the entire city from prairie mud to save it from devastating cholera epidemics. The saga of Chicago's unresolved struggle between order and freedom, growth and control, capitalism and community, remains instructive for our time, as we seek ways to build and maintain cities that retain their humanity without losing their energy. City of the Century throbs with the pulse of the great city it brilliantly brings to life. |
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... railroad , but by 1840 over half of the railroad tracks in the world had been laid in America , and in that year the country was about to embark on a half - century - long program of rail- road building that was the largest construction ...
... railroad , but by 1840 over half of the railroad tracks in the world had been laid in America , and in that year the country was about to embark on a half - century - long program of rail- road building that was the largest construction ...
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... railroad center of the Midwest and hastened the inevitable coming of the eastern railroads . As the Tribune wrote of Ogden on the occasion of his death : " No one else in the history of the city better understood its prime commercial ...
... railroad center of the Midwest and hastened the inevitable coming of the eastern railroads . As the Tribune wrote of Ogden on the occasion of his death : " No one else in the history of the city better understood its prime commercial ...
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... railroad as the key to the future of the West and , after serving on the state supreme court and in the House of Repre- sentatives , was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1846 on a platform call- ing for the federal government to cede ...
... railroad as the key to the future of the West and , after serving on the state supreme court and in the House of Repre- sentatives , was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1846 on a platform call- ing for the federal government to cede ...
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