The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream (Hardcover) by Thomas Dyja

from Othemts

Watching television and the movies, one could be fooled into thinking that everyone in the U.S.A. lives in either Southern California or a very large apartment in Manhattan.  When I was a kid, some of the more "ordinary" people I saw in tv and movies were instead from Chicago, ranging from the wo...

from Juva

This is a wide ranging history of a city that is near and dear to my heart. Still, I think that this type of broad history is not really my cup of tea. The book is really trying to capture the essence of Chicago during a certain set of decades. So much is happening, so much is going on, so many p...

from setnahkt

Author Thomas Dyja contends that Chicago was a center of American culture – “a third coast” – during the first part of the 20th century (up until 1960). He cites the Chicago architectural tradition, headed by Louis Sullivan and Mies van der Rowe; the flourishing of early television, that produced...