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Synopsis. In the 12,000-word lyrical essay, Algren summarizes 120 years of Chicago history as a tangle of hustlers, gangsters, and corrupt politicians, but he ultimately declares his love for the city with these famous lines from Chapter 2: "It's every man for himself in this hired air.
Oct 15, 2011 · The sixtieth anniversary edition features historic Chicago photos and annotations on everything from defunct slang to Chicagoans, famous and obscure, to what the Black Sox scandal was and why it mattered. More accessible than ever, this is, as Studs Terkel says, “the best book about Chicago.”.
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- University of Chicago Press
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- Nelson Algren
Chicago’s, and American society’s, lurid and leering fascination with the “forbidden-ness” of sex is on full display here. The woman who is engaging in sex work in order to survive – poor, uneducated, and alone, by all odds – is fined, imprisoned, and publicly shamed.
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May 13, 2019 · Rather than offering a straight history of Chicago, City on the Make gets at the feeling of the city through time and space, from its beginnings in the swamps and prairie, with pioneers hustling the Potawatomi Indians, up through the modern-day Chamber of Commerce types, who hustled everybody else. At the start, Algren sets up a theme of ...
In this sixtieth anniversary edition, Algren presents 120 years of Chicago history through the lens of its “nobodies nobody knows”: the tramps, hustlers, aging bar fighters, freed death-row inmates, and anonymous working stiffs who prowl its streets.
Sep 25, 2001 · The prose poem, Chicago: City on the Make, filled with language that swings and jabs and stuns, lives up to those words. This 50th anniversary edition is newly annotated with explanations for everything from slang to Chicagoans, famous and obscure, to what the Black Sox scandal was and why it mattered.
- Nelson Algren
The prose poem, Chicago: City on the Make, filled with language that swings and jabs and stuns, lives up to those words. This 50th anniversary edition is newly annotated with explanations for...
