The Third Coast, (Paperback)

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...