The third coast : when Chicago built the American dream / Thomas Dyja.
Dyja, Tom.
2013
F548.52 .D95 2013 (Mapit)
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Title
The third coast : when Chicago built the American dream / Thomas Dyja.
Author
Dyja, Tom.
ISBN
9781594204326 hardcover
1594204322 hardcover
Published
New York : The Penguin Press, 2013.
Language
English
Description
xxxiv, 508 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Call Number
F548.52 .D95 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification
977.3/11043
Summary
Much of what defined the nation as it grew into a superpower was produced in Chicago. Before air travel overtook trains, nearly every coast-to coast journey included a stop there, and this flow of people and commodities made it America's central clearinghouse, laboratory, and factory. And even as Chicago led the way in creating mass-market culture, its artists pushed back in their own distinct voices. Chicago native Thomas Dyja re-creates the story of the city in its postwar prime and explains its profound impact on modern America.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 463-488) and index.
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Part One. Pre-1945
The Brick Is Another Teacher
We Were Part of Them
Washed Up on a Favorable Shore
The Ideal World of Mr. Hutchins
Part Two. 1945-1949
The Chaos of Our Conceptions
Believers in the City
A Discovered Beauty
Until My Change Comes
A Local Youth in Love
Let Me Do One by Myself
A Fresh Time
The Balance of Power
This Program Came to You from Chicago
A City of Slightbrows
Part Three. 1950-1954
Stand Up and Be Counted
Living Separate Lives
Nobody Knows My Name
The Lonely Crowd
Convention Summer
Playwrights and Playboys
Chicagsky Temp
Part Four. 1955
A Family Man for a Family City
The Blues Have a Baby
American Hungers
Theater Without Heroes
What Kind of World Do We Live In?
We Like It This Way
Part Five. 1956-1960
Chicago Dynamic
Beta People for a Beta World
Gaining a Moon and Losing Ourselves
Will Somebody Please Listen to Me Today!
The Realm of the Unreal
Epilogue: In Chicago for My Forever.

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