CHICAGO The History of Its Reputation.

Hardback. 1st US edn. Part I by Lloyd Lewis with Introduction and Part II by Henry Justin Smith. In this book the authors have sketched, incompletely but with a sincere effort to describe typical events, the story of Chicago's century as well as what led to it. Chicago, to some people meant brute force, ruthlessness and menace. Its "blood-and-thunder" reputation was world-wide, outstripping again and again the fame of its herculean business enterprises. The city has been studied, loved, hated, praised and denounced out of all proportion to its statistical position among the cities of the world. From the early beginnings c. 1690s with Father Pierre Pinet to the Gangland days of 1929. With Sources and Index. 508pp. lge. 8vo. h/back. With a personal b/plate to fpd, lightly foxed, browned edges and eps, sl. sunned sp. + several 'ring' mks. to lower cover. Red cloth with silver lettering. Vg. A fairly heavy book which will require additional postage if shipped overseas.