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Chicago - The Second City (Paperback)
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Many Chicagoans rose in protest over A. J. Liebling's
tongue-in-cheek tour of their fair city in 1952. Liebling found
much to admire in the Windy City's people and culture--its colorful
language, its political sophistication, its sense of its own
history and specialness, but Liebling offended that city's image of
itself when he discussed its entertainments, its built landscapes,
and its mental isolation from the world'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 couldn'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 Chicago'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 Chicago's mythic past, the Saint
Valentine's Day Massacre. Illustrated by Steinberg, Chicago is a
loving, if chiding, portrait of a great American metropolis.
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