Popular Culture and the Enduring Myth of Chicago, 1871-1968

Name: Popular Culture and the Enduring Myth of Chicago, 1871-1968
ISBN: 9780203335437

doi:10.4324/9780203335437

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Popular Culture and the Enduring Myth of Chicago, 1871-1968

ABSTRACT

This book is an examination of the image of Chicago in American popular culture between the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and Chicago's 1968 Democratic National Convention.

Popular Culture and the Enduring Myth of Chicago, 1871-1968

ABSTRACT

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|20 pages

"Do you Wonder Chicago Burned?": The Great Chicago Fire and the Launching of Chicago’s National Reputation

chapter 2|31 pages

“The New City of the New World”: Fin-de-Siecle Chicago and Its Fairs

chapter 3|28 pages

“Turbulent Mistress of the West”: Popular Images of Chicago in the Progressive Era

chapter 4|18 pages

“All the World is Waiting for the Sunrise”: A Century of Progress and the National Image of Chicago

chapter 5|16 pages

Chapter Five Infamous City: Chicago and the Reworking of Reality in American Popular Culture

chapter 6|16 pages

The End of the Myth: Chicago in the Tumultuous 1960s