Chicago by the Book
101 Publications That Shaped the City and Its Image
Chicago by the Book
101 Publications That Shaped the City and Its Image
Chicago by the 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.
Arranged chronologically to show the history of both the city and its books, the essays can be read in order from Mrs. John H. Kinzie’s 1844 Narrative of the Massacre of Chicago to Sara Paretsky’s 2015 crime novel Brush Back. Or one can dip in and out, savoring reflections on the arts, sports, crime, race relations, urban planning, politics, and even Mrs. O’Leary’s legendary cow. The selections do not shy from the underside of the city, recognizing that its grit and graft have as much a place in the written imagination as soaring odes and boosterism. As Neil Harris observes in his introduction, “Even when Chicagoans celebrate their hearth and home, they do so while acknowledging deep-seated flaws.” At the same time, this collection heartily reminds us all of what makes Chicago, as Norman Mailer called it, the “great American city.”
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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336 pages | 145 color plates | 8 1/2 x 9 1/2 | © 2018
History: Urban History
Library Science and Publishing: Publishing
Reviews
Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
Listing Chicago by Neil Harris
Entries
1
Juliette A. Kinzie,
Narrative of the Massacre at Chicago, 1844
Ann Durkin Keating
2
A. J. Vaas,
“Zouave Cadets Quickstep,” 1860
Alison Hinderliter
3
James W. Sheahan,
Chicago Illustrated 1830–1866,1866–67
David Buisseret
4
John M. Wing,
The Great Chicago Lake Tunnel, 1867
Carl Smith
5
John S. Wright,
Chicago: Past, Present, Future, 1868
Eric Slauter
6
Olmsted, Vaux & Co.,
Report Accompanying the Plan for Laying Out the South Park, 1871
Victoria Post Ranney
7
Edward P. Roe,
Barriers Burned Away, 1872
Neil Harris
8
Montgomery Ward and Sears, Roebuck,
Catalogues, 1872–1985, 1894–2003
Russell Lewis
9
The Lakeside Annual Directory of the City of Chicago, 1875–1917
Rick Fizdale
10
Fergus’ Historical Series Relating to Chicago and Illinois, 1876–1903
Russell Lewis
11
Alfred T. Andreas,
History of Chicago from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, 1884–86
Kathleen Neils Conzen
12
John P. A ltgeld,
Reasons for Pardoning Fielden, Neebe and Schwab, 1893
Ron Grossman
13
Henry B. Fuller,
The Cliff-Dwellers: A Novel, 1893
Alice Schreyer
14
Rand, McNally & Co.’s Bird’s-Eye Views and Guide to Chicago, 1893
Kenneth Nebenzahl
15
Ida B. Wells,
The Reason Why the Colored American Is Not in the World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893
Toni Preckwinkle
16
William H. Carwardine,
The Pullman Strike, 1894
Leon Fink
17
William T. Stead,
If Christ Came to Chicago!, 1894
Martin E . Marty
18
Herbert S. Stone,
The Chap-Book, 1894–98
Paul F. Gehl
19
Rossiter Johnson,
A History of the World’s Columbian Exposition, 1897–98
Neil Harris
20
Finley Peter Dunne,
Mr. Dooley in Peace and War, 1898
Charles Fanning
21
John Dewey,
The School and Society, 1899
Michael P. Wakeford
22
Theodore Dreiser,
Sister Carrie, 1900
Elliott J. Gorn
23
Frank Norris,
The Epic of the Wheat: The Pit,1903
Timothy Spears
24
The Lakeside Classics,
1903–present
Kim Coventry
25
Marshall Everett,
The Great Chicago Theater Disaster, 1904
Neil Harris
26
Dwight Heald Perkins,
Report of the Special Park Commission on the Subject of a Metropolitan Park System, 1905
Julia Bachrach
27
Upton Sinclair,
The Jungle, 1906
Dominic A . Pacyga
28
George P. Upton,
Musical Memories: My Recollections of Celebrities of the Half Century 1850–1900, 1908
Celia Hilliard
29
Daniel H. Burnham and Edward H. Bennett,
Plan of Chicago, 1909
Carl Smith
30
Jane Addams,
Twenty Years at Hull-House, with Autobiographical Notes, 1910
Rima Lunin Schultz
31
Frank Lloyd Wright,
Ausgeführte Bauten und Entwürfe, 1910–11
David Van Zanten
32
Ada and Minna Everleigh,
The Everleigh Club Illustrated, 1911
Edward C. Hirschland
33
Walter D. Moody,
Wacker’s Manual of the Plan of Chicago, 1911
Edward C. Hirschland
34
Poetry, A Magazine of Verse, 1912–present
Don Share
35
The Art Institute of Chicago,
Catalogue of the International Exhibition of Modern Art, 1913
Paul Kruty
36
Ring W. Lardner,
You Know Me Al, 1916
Lester Munson
37
Carl Sandburg,
Chicago Poems, 1916
Rosanna Warren
38
Alfred B. Yeomans,
City Residential Land Development, 1916
Daniel Bluestone
39
Chicago Commission on Race Relations,
The Negro in Chicago: A Study of Race Relations and a Race Riot, 1922
Adam Green
40
Fred Fisher,
“Chicago: That Todd’ling Town,” 1922
D. W . Krummel
41
Ben Hecht,
A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago, 1922
Celia Hilliard
42
The International Competition for a New Administration Building for the Chicago Tribune, 1923
Katherine Solomonson
43
Weird Tales, 1923–54
Carlo Rotella
44
Clarence Darrow,
The Plea of Clarence Darrow in Defense of Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold Jr. on Trial for Murder, 1924
Gary T . Johnson
45
Louis H. Sullivan,
A System of Architectural Ornament, 1924
David Van Zanten
46
Robert Herrick ,
Chimes, 1926
Hanna Holborn Gray
47
Amos Alonzo Stagg and Wesley Winans Stout,
Touchdown!, 1927
Robin Lester
48
Frederic Thrasher,
The Gang, 1927
Andrew V . Papachristos
49
Baird & Warner, Inc.,
A Portfolio of Fine Apartment Homes, 1928
Teri J. Edelstein
50
Harvey Warren Zorbaugh,
The Gold Coast and the Slum, 1929
Andrew Abbott
51
Margaret Anderson,
My 30 Years’ War: An Autobiography, 1930
Liesl Olson
52
Hal Andrews,
Chicago Gang Wars in Pictures: X Marks the Spot, 1930
William Mullen
53
Dana, Melville, Poe, and Thoreau,
Four American Books Campaign, 1930
Kim Coventry
54
James T. Farrell,
Studs Lonigan: A Trilogy, 1932–35
Bruce Hatton Boyer
55
Esquire: The Magazine for Men, 1933–present
Teri J. Edelstein
56
Kauf mann & Fabry,
A Century of Progress International Exposition Chicago, 1933–1934, 1933–34
Edward C. Hirschland
57
Down Beat, 1934–present
Steve Tomashefsky
58
Edith Abbott,
The Tenements of Chicago, 1908– 1935, 1936
Henry C. Binford
59
Robert Maynard Hutchins,
The Higher Learning in America, 1936
John W . Boyer
60
Bessie Louise Pierce,
A History of Chicago, 1937–57
Perry R . Duis
61
Illinois: A Descriptive and Historical Guide, 1939
John Blew
62
Richard Wright,
Native Son, 1940
Davarian L . Baldwin
63
Chicago Plan Commission,
Forty-Four Cities in the City of Chicago, 1942
Michael P. Conzen
64
Gwendolyn Brooks,
A Street in Bronzeville, 1945
Sara Paretsky
65
St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton,
Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City, 1945
William Julius Wilson
66
Ebony, 1945–present
Robert H. Jordan Jr.
67
László Moholy-Nagy,
Vision in Motion, 1947
Lynn Martin Windsor
68
Chicago Railroad Fair Official Guide Book and Program for the Pageant ‘Wheels a-Rolling,’ 1948
Will Hansen
69
Ralph H. Burke,
Master Plan of Chicago Orchard (Douglas) Airport, 1948
Charles Waldheim
70
Frank A. Ran dall,
History of the Development of Building Construction in Chicago, 1949
Daniel Bluestone
71
Nelson Algren,
Chicago: City on the Make, 1951
Alex Kotlowitz
72
860–880 Lake Shore Drive, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Architect, ca. 1951
John Ronan
73
Robert Maynard Hutchins and Mortimer J. Adler,
Great Books of the Western World, 1952
Tim Lacy
74
A. J. Liebling,
Chicago: The Second City, 1952
Thomas Dyja
75
Lloyd Wendt and Her man Kogan,
Give the Lady What She Wants! The Story of Marshall Field & Company, 1952
Leslie Goddard
76
Saul Bellow,
The Adventures of Augie March: A Novel, 1953
David Auburn
77
Playboy, 1953–present
Timothy J. Gilfoyle
78
Laura Fermi,
Atoms in the Family: My Life with Enrico Fermi, 1954
Daniel Meyer
79
Meyer Levin,
Compulsion, 1956
Nina Barrett
80
Lorraine Hansberry,
A Raisin in the Sun: A Drama in Three Acts, 1959
Regina Taylor
81
Eliot Asinof,
Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series, 1963
Ira Berkow
82
Carl W. Condit,
The Chicago School of Architecture, 1964
Robert Bruegmann
83
The Prairie School Review, 1964–81
John Blew
84
Studs Terkel,
Division Street: America, 1967
Garry Wills
85
Norman Mailer,
Miami and the Siege of Chicago, 1968
Frank Rich
86
Ira J. Bach,
Chicago on Foot, 1969
Jay Pridmore
87
Yasuhiro Ishimoto,
Chicago, Chicago, 1969
Stephen Daiter
88
Harold M. Mayer and RichardC. Wade,
Chicago: Growth of a Metropolis, 1969
Pauline Saliga
89
Saul D. Alinsky,
Rules for Radicals, 1971
Don Rose
90
Mike Royko,
Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago, 1971
Paul M . Green
91
Lois Wille,
Forever Open, Clear and Free: The Struggle for Chicago’s Lakefront, 1972
Julia Bachrach
92
Mike Rowe,
Chicago Breakdown, 1973
Paul Garon
93
David Mamet,
Sexual Perversity in Chicago and The Duck Variations, 1978
Chris Jones
94
Sandra Cisneros,
The House on Mango Street, 1984
Carlos Tortolero
95
William Cronon,
Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West, 1991
Kathleen Neils Conzen
96
Alex Kotlowitz,
There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America, 1991
D. Bradford Hunt
97
Chris Ware,
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, 2000
Hillary Chute
98
Bernard Sahlins,
Days and Nights at the Second City: A Memoir, 2001
Kelly Leonard
99
Richard F. Bales,
The Great Chicago Fire and the Myth of Mrs. O’Leary’s Cow, 2002
Glenn Humphreys
100
Erik Larson,
The Devil in the White City, 2003
Victoria Lautman
101
Sara Paretsky,
Brush Back, 2015
Gini Hartzmark
Note to the Reader
Notes
Contributors’ Biographies
Donors
Photo Credits
Index
About The Caxton Club
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