The day Walter White was buried in 1955 the New York Times called him "the nearest approach to a national leader of American Negroes since Booker T. Washington." For more than two decades, White, as s
A lively, immersive history by an award-winning urbanist of New York City's transformation, and the lessons it offers for the city's future.Dangerous, filthy, and falling apart, garbage piled on its s
In this “brilliantly imagined and neatly plotted” Civil War novel (Boston Globe), two battle-scarred companies-one Union, one Confederate-embark on a series of baseball games amid the car
A cultural history of mid-twentieth-century Chicago traces the emergence of mass-marketing practices, technological advances, and artistic development that profoundly influenced modern America.
Though today it can seem as if all American culture comes out of New York and Los Angeles, much of what defined the nation as it grew into a superpower was produced in Chicago. Before air travel overt
A cultural history of mid-twentieth-century Chicago traces the emergence of mass-marketing practices, technological advances, and artistic development that profoundly influenced modern America.
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