The third coast : when Chicago built the American Dream / Thomas Dyja.

Main entry:

Dyja, Tom.

Title & Author:

The third coast : when Chicago built the American Dream / Thomas Dyja.

Publication:

New York, New York : Penguin Books, 2014.

Description:

xxxiv, 508 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Notes:
Originally published by Penguin Press in 2013.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 463-488) and index.
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.

Summary:

A cultural history of Chicago at midcentury, with its incredible mix of architects, politicians, musicians, writers, entrepreneurs, and actors who helped shape modern America.

ISBN:

0143125095 (paperback)
9780143125099 (paperback)

Subject:

Intellectual life.
International relations.
Social conditions
Chicago (Ill.) History 20th century.
Chicago (Ill.) Social conditions 20th century.
Chicago (Ill.) Intellectual life 20th century.
Chicago (Ill.) Relations United States.
United States Relations Illinois Chicago.
Chicago (Ill.) Histoire 20e siècle.
Illinois Chicago.
United States.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 285852
Call No.: BIB 225796
Status: Available

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