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Chicago: The Second City Book

Describes the restaurants, saloons, and striptease joints; the newspapers, cocktail parties, and political wards; the university; and the defining event in Chicago's...Read More

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    Many Chicagoans rose in protest over A. J. Lieblingâ??s tongue-in-cheek tour of their fair city in 1952. Liebling found much to admire in the Windy Cityâ??s people and cultureâ??its colorful language, its political sophistication, its sense of its own history and specialness, but Liebling offended that cityâ??s image of itself when he discussed its entertainments, its built landscapes, and its mental isolation from the worldâ??s affairs.

    Liebling, a writer and editor for the New Yorker, lived in Chicago for nearly a year. While he found a home among its colorful inhabitants, he couldnâ??t help comparing Chicago with some other cities he had seen and loved, notably Paris, London, and especially New York. His magazine columns brought down on him a storm of protests and denials from Chicagoâ??s defenders, and he gently and humorously answers their charges and acknowledges his errors in a foreword written especially for the book edition. Liebling describes the restaurants, saloons, and striptease joints; the newspapers, cocktail parties, and political wards; the university; and the defining event in Chicagoâ??s mythic past, the Saint Valentineâ??s Day Massacre. Illustrated by Steinberg, Chicago is a loving, if chiding, portrait of a great American metropolis.

  • 0803280351
  • 9780803280359
  • A.J. Liebling
  • 1 May 2004
  • University of Nebraska Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 144
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