Item #19621 Chicago by the Book; 101 Publications That Shaped the City and Its Image. Chicago, Caxton Club.

Chicago by the Book; 101 Publications That Shaped the City and Its Image

Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2018. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Small quarto, pp. 275, indexed, illustrated with color photographs. As New in Fine DJ. Item #19621

This book profiles 101 landmark publications about Chicago from the past 170 years that have helped define the city and its image. Each title - carefully selected by the Caxton Club, a venerable Chicago bibliophilic organization - is the focus of an illustrated essay by a leading scholar, writer, or bibliophile. With essays from, among others, Ira Berkow, Thomas Dyja, Ann Durkin Keating, Alex Kotlowitz, Toni Preckwinkle, Frank Rich, Don Share, Carl Smith, Regina Taylor, Garry Wills, and William Julius Wilson; and featuring works by Saul Bellow, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sandra Cisneros, Clarence Darrow, Erik Larson, David Mamet, Studs Terkel, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Frank Lloyd Wright, and many more.

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