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Summary: Summer 1919: the city of Chicago seemed on the verge of transformation. Modernizers had an audacious, expensive plan to turn the city from a brawling, unglamorous place into 'the Metropolis of the World.' But just as the dream seemed within reach, pandemonium broke loose--the city's highest ambitions suddenly under attack by the same unbridled energies that had given birth to them in the first...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 977.3 KRIKrist, Gary.
Summary: "From bestselling author Gary Krist, a vibrant and immersive account of New Orleans' other civil war, at a time when commercialized vice, jazz culture, and endemic crime defined the battlegrounds of the Crescent City. Empire of Sin re-creates the remarkable story of New Orleans' thirty-years war against itself, pitting the city's elite 'better half' against its powerful and long-entrenched...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976 KRIKrist, Gary.
Summary: "In February 1910, a monstrous blizzard hit Washington State. High in the Cascade Mountains near the tiny town of Wellington, two trainloads of cold, hungry passengers and their crews found their railcars buried in rising drifts, parked precariously on the edge of a steep ravine. An army of the Great Northern Railroad's men worked round-the-clock to rescue the trains, but the storm was...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US KristKrist, Gary.
Summary: Documents the harrowing twelve-day period in Chicago in 1919 during which a blimp crash, a race riot, a crippling transit strike, and a sensational child murder case challenged the city's modernization efforts.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2012