City of scoundrels the twelve days of disaster that gave birth to modern Chicago

Summary: Documents the harrowing twelve-day period in Chicago in 1919 during which a blimp crash, a race riot, a crippling transit strike, and a sensational child murder case challenged the city's modernization efforts.

Record details

ISBN: 0307454312 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780307454317 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource : ill., ports., maps
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electronic resource
Publisher: New York : Crown Publishers, c2012.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on online resource; title from Adobe Epub title page (Overdrive, viewed June 1, 2012).