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Chicago, City on the Make
Language: en
Pages: 106
Authors: Nelson Algren
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1987 - Publisher:

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Presents Algren's irreverent portrait of Chicago--the hustlers' town--which records the character and lifestyles of the Windy City from pioneer days through Pro
Chicago
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Nelson Algren
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011 - Publisher:

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Ernest Hemingway once said of Nelson Algren's writing that "you should not read it if you cannot take a punch." The prose poem, Chicago: City on the Make, fille
Chicago on the Make
Language: en
Pages: 434
Authors: Andrew J. Diamond
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-04-07 - Publisher: University of California Press

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"Effectively details the long history of racial conflict and abuse that has led to Chicago becoming one of America's most segregated cities. . . . A wealth of m
Never a Lovely So Real: The Life and Work of Nelson Algren
Language: en
Pages: 560
Authors: Colin Asher
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-04-16 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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This definitive biography reclaims Nelson Algren as a towering literary figure and finally unravels the enigma of his disappearance from American letters. For a
City of the Century
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Pages: 1084
Authors: Donald L. Miller
Categories: History
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“A wonderfully readable account of Chicago’s early history” and the inspiration behind PBS’s American Experience (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times).