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Chicago the Extraordinary
Bowers, Claude G. | October 16, 1929 issue

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This article literally appraises the book "Chicago: A History of Its Reputation," by Henry Justin Smith and Lloyd Lewis. At length there is something of a miracle in "Chicago: A History of Its Reputation," a throbbing biography of a city, fascinating as a Dreiser novel, written colorfully and with a fine sense of the dramatic. Neither a eulogy nor an attack, it is a swiftly moving recital of the tremendous events, tragic, humorous, inspiring, and nauseating, that have marked the imperial onward march of a community that have fairly pulsated with dynamic energy from the beginning.

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CHICAGO (Book); SMITH, Henry Justin; LEWIS, Lloyd; BIOGRAPHY; AUXILIARY sciences of history; BOOKS & reading
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