Mr. Wrigley's Ball Club - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mr. Wrigley's Ball Club write by Roberts Ehrgott. This book was released on 2013-04-01. Mr. Wrigley's Ball Club available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Chicago in the Roaring Twenties was a city of immigrants, mobsters, and flappers with one shared passion: the Chicago Cubs. It all began when the chewing-gum tycoon William Wrigley decided to build the world’s greatest ball club in the nation’s Second City. In this Jazz Age center, the maverick Wrigley exploited the revolutionary technology of broadcasting to attract eager throngs of women to his renovated ballpark. Mr. Wrigley’s Ball Club transports us to this heady era of baseball history and introduces the team at its crazy heart—an amalgam of rakes, pranksters, schemers, and choirboys who take center stage in memorable successes, equally memorable disasters, and shadowy intrigue. Readers take front-row seats to meet Grover Cleveland Alexander, Rogers Hornsby, Joe McCarthy, Lewis “Hack” Wilson, Gabby Hartnett. The cast of characters also includes their colorful if less-extolled teammates and the Cubs’ nemesis, Babe Ruth, who terminates the ambitions of Mr. Wrigley’s ball club with one emphatic swing.
Jazz Age Chicago
Jazz Age Chicago - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jazz Age Chicago write by Joseph Gustaitis. This book was released on 2022-01-17. Jazz Age Chicago available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When people imagine 1920s Chicago, they usually (and justifiably) think of Al Capone, speakeasies, gang wars, flappers and flivvers. Yet this narrative overlooks the crucial role the Windy City played in the modernization of America. The city's incredible ethnic variety and massive building boom gave it unparalleled creative space, as design trends from Art Deco skyscrapers to streamlined household appliances reflected Chicago's unmistakable style. The emergence of mass media in the 1920s helped make professional sports a national obsession, even as Chicago radio stations were inventing the sitcom and the soap opera. Join Joseph Gustaitis as he chases the beat of America's Jazz Age back to its jazz capital.
The Chicagoan
The Chicagoan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Chicagoan write by Neil Harris. This book was released on 2008. The Chicagoan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "While browsing the stacks of the Regenstein Library at the University of Chicago some years ago, noted historian Neil Harris made a surprising discovery: a group of nine plainly bound volumes whose unassuming spines bore the name The Chicagoan." "Here Harris brings this lost magazine of the Jazz Age back to life. Harris's substantial introductory essay here sets the stage, exploring the ambitions, tastes, and prejudices of Chicagoans during the 1920s and 30s. The author then lets the Chicagoan speak for itself in lavish full-color segments that reproduce its many elements: from covers, cartoons, and editorials to reviews, features - and even one issue reprinted in its entirety." "Recalling a vivid moment in the life of the Windy City, the Chicagoan is a forgotten treasure, offered here for a whole new age to enjoy."--BOOK JACKET.
Ugly Prey
Ugly Prey - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ugly Prey write by Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi. This book was released on 2017-05-01. Ugly Prey available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ugly Prey tells the riveting story of poor Italian immigrant Sabella Nitti, the first woman ever sentenced to hang in Chicago, in 1923, for the alleged murder of her husband. Journalist Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi leads readers through the case, showing how, with no evidence and no witnesses, Nitti was the target of an obsessed deputy sheriff and the victim of a faulty legal system. She was also—to the men who convicted her and reporters fixated on her—ugly. For that unforgiveable crime, the media painted her as a hideous, dirty, and unpredictable immigrant, almost an animal. Featuring two other fascinating women—the ambitious and ruthless journalist who helped demonize Sabella through her reports and the brilliant, beautiful, 23-year-old lawyer who helped humanize her with a jailhouse makeover—Ugly Prey is not just a page-turning courtroom drama but also a thought-provoking look at the intersection of gender, ethnicity, and class within the American justice system.
Big Bosses
Big Bosses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Big Bosses write by Althea McDowell Altemus. This book was released on 2016-11-18. Big Bosses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "In partnership with Vizcaya Museum and Gardens."
