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Chicago: A Biography
Product Type: Book
Product Price: $35.00
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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Description
Chicago has been called by many names. Nelson Algren declared it A City on the Make.” Carl Sandburg dubbed it the City of Big Shoulders.” Upton Sinclair christened it The Jungle,” while New Yorkers, naturally, pronounced it the Second City.”
At last there is a book for all of us, whatever we choose to call Chicago. Here, historian Dominic Pacyga gives his hometown the magisterial biography it has long deserved. Chicago traces the city’s storied past, from the explorations of Joliet and Marquette in 1673 to the new wave of urban pioneers today. The city’s great industrialists, reformers, and politiciansand, indeed, the many not-so-great and downright notoriousanimate this book, from Al Capone and Jane Addams to Mayor Richard J. Daley and President Barack Obama.
But what distinguishes this book from the many others on the subject is its author’s uncommon ability to illuminate the lives of Chicago’s ordinary people. Born and raised in Back of the Yards on Chicago’s southwest side, Pacyga spent his college years working at the Union Stock Yards. Chicago, therefore, gives voice to the city’s steelyard workers and kill floor operators, mapping the neighborhoods distinguished not by Louis Sullivan masterworks, but by bungalows and corner taverns. And their stories come alive through an extensive selection of evocative illustrations culled from major institutional archives, local historical societies, and the author’s personal collection.
Filled with the city’s one-of-a-kind characters and all of its defining moments, Chicago: A Biography is as big and boisterous as its namesakeand as ambitious as the men and women who built it.
Reviews
Rating: 2 / 5
Date: 2010-08-31
Summary: "Nothing new here"
I agree with the other reviewer who commented on the book not being current in its use of the recent literature on Chicago. I was shocked at how many important books recently written about Chicago that Pacyga has overlooked. This book is alright as a very basic guide to Chicago history, but the author misses every opportunity to enrich and complicate the story. Why no use of such fine new books on Chicago by authors like Adam Green, Sudhir Venkatesh, Nicholas De Genova, Ana Ramos-Zayas, Eric Klinenberg, Andrew Diamond, Richard Lloyd, Chad Heap, Mary Patillo, etc.? Granted these are academic studies and Pacyga seems to want to attract a more general audience, but their insights would have made this a much better book.
Rating: 2 / 5
Date: 2010-08-14
Summary: "A Disappointment"
This book is largely a synthesis of previous literature on Chicago, which is not in itself a problem. What IS a problem is the fact that the author has failed to incorporate almost anything written within the last decade or so. This is a major weakness that limits the value of the book for anyone who is familiar with Chicago history.
Rating: 1 / 5
Date: 2010-07-30
Summary: "19.25"
$19.25 for the Kindle edition. Nope. I wont pay that much for any Kindle book. Wanted to read this, but will have to go to the Library.
Rating: 2 / 5
Date: 2010-06-19
Summary: "No thanks..."
I read a lot of history and will be in Chicago in July. So, naturally, I went searching for a book to give me a grounding on what makes the city special, hoping to get a feel for back story, neighborhoods and people. This dull, overly scholarly tomb is a difficult read with little juicy detail to hold my interest. Worst of all, it doesn't motivate me to get excited about going to Chicago. This is an expensive book, but doesn't deliver. So, I'm looking for more interesting reads.
Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2010-05-18
Summary: "A great scholarly work, with a few drawbacks"
Dominic Pacyga's book starts with the first colonial white men, Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet, who navigated the Chicago River in the early 17th century, and covers the early days of this settlement (whose name means little onions in the language of its pre-colonial natives). Chicago became a city on the Western border of the new world, facing several Indian tribes that were at times friendly, and at other times hostile.
According to Pacyga, Chicago's boom came largely due to its location both as a frontier, therefore receiving the attention of the federal government that stationed Fort Dearborn on the mouth of the Chicago River, and as a port connecting the Atlantic to the Mississippi after the opening of the Erie Canal in New York, followed by the Illinois and Michigan Canal.
With the natives moving further west, the frontier moved with them and federal attention declined. Yet Chicago kept on booming as a transportation hub, a role that America's third-largest city still plays until today thanks to its always busy O'Hare Airport.
Pacyga argues that Chicago was to a great extent the "daughter of New York city." He highlights the international character of Chicago, and the history of its immigrant communities. Even though the book does not follow a strict chronological order, it generally flows from one decade to another.
The book covers, extensively, Chicago during the civil war, and the boom it witnessed being away from the front, but still servicing the federal government's war needs. The book also covers the events leading to and the consequences of the fire of 1871, and that of 1874.
It follows divisions amongst Chicagoans in the buildup to and during World War I, with German-Americans openly siding against the US government for entering the war on the side of Britain and France. After WWI, Chicago became the gangland - during prohibition - for the likes of Al Capone. Then like during the civil war and WWI, Chicago prospered once more during WWII by servicing the government's war needs.
After each war, Chicago's economy would slow down, pushing the city's mayors to look to Washington for assistance: Enter Mayor Richard Daley the father, whose political machine left a mark on the city and its political culture and who succeeded in nation-wide winning attention for the city. After the death of the strong Daley, who served as mayor between the mid 50s and mid 70s, divisions marred Chicago's politics to the extent that it was called "Beirut on the Lake," after the civil-war-battered capital of Lebanon.
Chicago saw the election of the first woman mayor, Jane Byrne, in 1979, and the first African-American mayor Howard Washington in 1983. In 1989, Richard Daley, the son of the legendary Daley, became mayor, a post that he occupies until today.
The book is a very entertaining read and has a lot of priceless old pictures. However, a few drawbacks should be noted.
First, Pacyga exhausts topics that might be of interest to him alone, such as the history of the labor movement in Chicago. This topic could have been covered in a briefer manner. Second, Pacyga also covers the history of construction of Chicago's neighborhoods in a manner that might be interesting to Chicagoans only. Third, the book sometimes reads like a chronicle, whereas as a historian, Pacyga should have been more selective and briefer. Fourth, it reads like a propaganda leaflet when the author prints his own wishes that Chicago win its bid to host Olympics, which Chicago actually lost. Such piece of information cannot possibly be part of history as it was still pending when the book went to print.
Overall, the book is a very good scholarly work and one wish there were many of its kind covering more American cities.