City of Scoundrels

Name: City of Scoundrels: The 12 Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago
ISBN: 9780307454294

The 12 Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago

Gary Krist

2013·368 pages·Nonfiction

Biography Crime

gritty true crime

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.

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City of Scoundrels

The 12 Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago

Gary Krist

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2013

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368

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Nonfiction

Biography Crime Historical Fiction History & Politics

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