Chicago Author:Studs Terkel Studs Terkel has become known throughout the world for his highly praised chronicles of American life, his forays into the American soul. In this book he turns to the place he hsa lived for most of his life, the people closest to him, the city whose voice he has become. Part history, part memoir, filled with anecdote, memory, and personal reflec... more »tion, Terkel's latest work is a splendid evocation of his home town, in all of its glory, in all of its imperfection.
Chicago is drawn in part from an article that first appeared in Chicago magazine. Expanded and adapted here, Terke's text is accompanied by a lavish assortment of photographs by a group on the city's most renowned photographers: Stephen Deutch, Archie Lieberman, Marc PoKempner, Arthur Shay, and Richard Younker.
From inner-city murals to Mies van der Rohe, from sultry no-hitters to Al Capone, from the newly unveiled Picasso to the city's myriad bridges and bag ladies, Terkel creates a visual and verbal testimony to Chicago's uniqueness - and to his own unique ability to capture its ineluctable aura on the written page.
Masterfully written, beautifully illustrated, and exceptionally well designed, Chicago may replace Sandburg's paean as the city's anthem. While it is clearly if interest primarily to those who have lived in Chicago it is nonetheless a book that transcends the city's limits and that will represent Chicago to the rest of the world for years to come.« less