ISBN:
9780809334988
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (319 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Gustaitis, Joseph Chicago Transformed : World War I and the Windy City
DDC:
305.8009773/110904
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Online-Publikation
Abstract:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: Chicago, Microcosm of America -- Part One. Before the War -- 1. "Throw the Dictionary at It": Chicago in 1913 -- 2. Preparedness and Public Opinion: Why Chicago Went to War -- One Chicagoan's War -- Jane Addams: The "Impertinent Old Maid" -- William Hale Thompson: "Kaiser Bill" -- Part Two. Chicago's Soldiers -- 3. "Kia-Kiak": The Black Hawk Division -- 4. Black Devils and Partridges: The 370th Infantry Regiment -- One Chicagoan's War -- John T. McCutcheon: The Candid Cartoonist
Abstract:
Samuel J. "Nails" Morton: The Mobster as War Hero -- Robert R. McCormick: The Colonel -- Floyd Gibbons: The Reporter Who Lost an Eye -- Part Three. Life on the Home Front -- 5. Wheatless, Meatless, and Coalless: Patriotic Chicago -- 6. Chicago's Bright Ideas: The Four Minute Men and the American Protective League -- One Chicagoan's War -- Charles E. Merriam: The Professor in Italy -- Ernest Hemingway: The Adventurous Writer -- Clarence Darrow: Defender of the War-and Its Opponents -- Part Four. Chicago Women and the Sexual Revolution -- 7. "The Work Is There to Do": Chicago Women in Wartime
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8. "Sex O'Clock in America": Chicago and the First Sexual Revolution -- One Chicagoan's War -- Eunice Tietjens: The Disillusioned Poet -- Part Five. Chicago's Changing Ethnic Landscape -- 9. "The Biggest Town in the World": The Great Migration -- 10. "That Was Music": Chicago Jazz -- 11. "Sweet Home Chicago": The Chicago Blues -- 12. "Coming to Stay": The Beginning of Mexican Chicago -- 13. The End of Kultur: The Plight of Chicago's Germans -- One Chicagoan's War -- Thomas A. Dorsey: The Father of Gospel Music -- Emil G. Hirsch: The Mistrusted Rabbi -- Part Six. After the War
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14. "Taking New Heart": Organized Labor and the Postwar Strikes -- 15. "Eyes to the Future": Chicago in 1919 -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author -- Back Cover
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