Chicago's Great Fire: The Destruction and Resurrection of an Iconic American City - Hardcover
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Chicago's Great Fire: The Destruction and Resurrection of an Iconic American City
This authoritative account by acclaimed historian Carl Smith delivers the first carefully researched popular history of one of America's most iconic urban disasters. The Great Chicago Fire of October 8-10, 1871, destroyed much of a rapidly growing city and reshaped American urban development.
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CARL SMITH is Franklyn Bliss Snyder Professor of English and American Studies and Professor of History, Emeritus, at Northwestern University. His books include Chicago and the American Literary Imagination, 1880-1920; Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief: The Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullman; The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of th...
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