City of Scoundrels: The Twelve Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago by Gary Krist

City of Scoundrels: The Twelve Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago

Gary Krist

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nonfiction history
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The masterfully told story of twelve volatile days in Chicago, when an aviation disaster, a race riot, a crippling transit strike, and a sensational child murder transfixed and roiled a city already on the brink of collapse. When 1919 began, the c...

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