{"product_id":"chicago-city-on-the-make-sixtieth-anniversary-edition-paperback","title":"Chicago: City on the Make: Sixtieth Anniversary Edition - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNelson Algren\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Once you've become a part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Ernest Hemingway once said of Nelson Algren's writing that \"you should not read it if you cannot take a punch.\" The prose poem, \u003ci\u003eChicago: City on the Make\u003c\/i\u003e, filled with language that swings and jabs and stuns, lives up to those words. In this sixtieth anniversary edition, Algren presents 120 years of Chicago history through the lens of its \"nobodies nobody knows\" the tramps, hustlers, aging bar fighters, freed death-row inmates, and anonymous working stiffs who prowl its streets. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Upon its original publication in 1951, Algren's \u003ci\u003eChicago: City on the Make\u003c\/i\u003e was scorned by the Chicago Chamber of Commerce and local journalists for its gritty portrayal of the city and its people, one that boldly defied City Hall's business and tourism initiatives. Yet the book captures the essential dilemma of Chicago: the dynamic tension between the city's breathtaking beauty and its utter brutality, its boundless human energy and its stifling greed and violence. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The sixtieth anniversary edition features historic Chicago photos and annotations on everything from defunct slang to Chicagoans, famous and obscure, to what the Black Sox scandal was and why it mattered. More accessible than ever, this is, as Studs Terkel says, \"the best book about Chicago.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNelson Algren\u003c\/b\u003e (1909-81) won the National Book Award in 1950 for \u003ci\u003eThe Man with the Golden Arm\u003c\/i\u003e. His works include \u003ci\u003eA Walk on the Wild Side\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Neon Wilderness\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eChicago: City on the Make\u003c\/i\u003e, the last published by the University of Chicago Press. \u003cb\u003eDavid Schmittgens\u003c\/b\u003e teaches English at St. Ignatius College Prep in Chicago. \u003cb\u003eBill Savage \u003c\/b\u003eis a senior lecturer at Northwestern University and coeditor of the fiftieth anniversary critical edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Man with the Golden Arm\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 152\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 7.9 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 15, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51978806493485,"sku":"9780226013862","price":21.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/VzdoWWxMOTIwM0QxQjM4aFZYYkwyUT09.webp?v=1775810415","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/chicago-city-on-the-make-sixtieth-anniversary-edition-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}