Heralded as Americas most quintessentially modern city, Chicago has attracted the gaze of journalists, novelists, essayists, and scholars as much as any city in the nation. And, yet, few historians have attempted big-picture narratives of the citys transformation over the twentieth century. Chicago on the Make traces the evolution of the citys politics, culture, and economy as it grew from an unruly tangle of rail yards, slaughterhouses, factories, tenement houses, and fiercely defended ethnic neighborhoods into a truly global urban center. Reinterpreting the familiar narrative that Chicagos autocratic machine politics shaped its institutions and public life, Andrew J. Diamond demonstrates how the grassroots politics of race crippled progressive forces and enabled an alliance of downtown business interests to promote a neoliberal agenda that created stark inequalities. Chicago on the Make takes the story into the twenty-first century, chronicling Chicagos deeply entrenched social and urban problems as the city ascended to the national stage during the Obama years.
- | Author: Andrew J. Diamond
- | Publisher: University of California Press
- | Publication Date: November 07, 2017
- | Number of Pages: 440 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 0520286480
- | ISBN-13: 9780520286481
