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When Chicago Built the American Dream
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A cultural history of Chicago at midcentury, with its incredible mix of architects, politicians, musicians, writers, entrepreneurs, and actors who helped shape modern America
Though today it can seem as if all American culture comes out of New York and Los Angeles, much of what defined the nation as it grew into a superpower was produced in Chicago. Before air travel overtook trains, nearly every coast-to-coast journey included a stop there, and this flow of people and commodities made it America’s central clearinghouse, laboratory, and factory. Between the end of World War II and 1960, Mies van der Rohe’s glass-and-steel architecture became the face of corporate America, Ray Kroc’s McDonald’s changed how people eat, Hugh Hefner unveiled Playboy, and the Chess brothers supercharged rock and roll with Chuck Berry. At the University of Chicago, the atom was split and Western civilization was packaged into the Great Books.
Yet even as Chicago led the way in creating mass-market culture, its artists pushed back in their own distinct voices. In literature, it was the outlaw novels of Nelson Algren (then carrying on a passionate affair with Simone de Beauvoir), the poems of Gwendolyn Brooks, and Studs Terkel’s oral histories. In music, it was the gospel of Mahalia Jackson, the urban blues of Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf, and the trippy avant-garde jazz of Sun Ra. In performance, it was the intimacy of Kukla, Fran, and Ollie, the “Chicago School” of television, and the improvisational comedy troupe Second City whose famous alumni are now everywhere in American entertainment.
Despite this diversity, racial divisions informed virtually every aspect of life in Chicago. The chaos—both constructive and destructive—of this period was set into motion by the second migration north of African Americans during World War II. As whites either fled to the suburbs or violently opposed integration, urban planners tried to design away "blight" with projects that marred a generation of American cities. The election of Mayor Richard J. Daley in 1955 launched a frenzy of new building that came at a terrible cost—monolithic housing projects for the black community and a new kind of self-satisfied provincialism that sped up the end of Chicago’s role as America’s meeting place.
In luminous prose, Chicago native Thomas Dyja re-creates the story of the city in its postwar prime and explains its profound impact on modern America.
Download the accompanying reference guide.©2013 Kelmsott Ink, Inc. (P)2013 Blackstone Audio, Inc.Los oyentes también disfrutaron...
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"Thomas Dyja has written a wonderful book about the cultural cauldron that seethed in twentieth-century Chicago. The Third Coast reminds us that New York and Los Angeles hold no monopoly on American artistic genius. From Louis Sullivan to Richard Wright, from Mahalia Jackson to Nelson Algren, Chicago attracted and inspired talent. Dyja’s well-crafted exploration of Chicago creativity helps us understand why cities are the wellsprings of culture. American society was molded by its cities, and Chicago has played an outsized role in molding music and literature and architecture. Dyja’s engaging writing not only provides an insightful investigation of Chicago’s cultural heroes but also delivers a broader view of how cities shape the sea of civilization." (Edward Glaeser, New York Times best-selling author of Triumph of the City)
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- Narrado por: Frangione Jim
- Duración: 29 h y 39 m
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In four words - "the capital of everything" - Duke Ellington captured Manhattan during one of the most exciting and celebrated eras in our history: The Jazz Age. Radio, tabloid newspapers, and movies with sound appeared. The silver screen took over Times Square as Broadway became America's movie mecca. Tremendous new skyscrapers were built in Midtown in one of the greatest building booms in history.
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the background to the NYC we now live in
- De MARCIE D. TERMAN en 03-05-15
De: Donald L. Miller
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St. Marks Is Dead
- The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street
- De: Ada Calhoun
- Narrado por: Carla Mercer-Meyer
- Duración: 10 h y 18 m
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St. Marks Place in New York City has spawned countless artistic and political movements. Here Frank O'Hara caroused, Emma Goldman plotted, and the Velvet Underground wailed. But every generation of miscreant denizens believes that their era, and no other, marked the street's apex.
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Wonderful history of a wonderful place.
- De Liza B. en 11-07-15
De: Ada Calhoun
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Razzle Dazzle
- The Battle for Broadway
- De: Michael Riedel
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
- Duración: 16 h y 40 m
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Razzle Dazzle is a provocative, no-holds-barred narrative account of the people, money, and power that reinvented an iconic quarter of New York City, turning its gritty back alleys and sex shops into the glitzy, dazzling Great White Way - and bringing a crippled New York from the brink of bankruptcy to its glittering glory.
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Too long and boring in spite of a vibrant subject
- De harry rohme en 03-04-18
De: Michael Riedel
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Good Day!
- The Paul Harvey Story
- De: Paul J. Batura
- Narrado por: Paul J. Batura
- Duración: 6 h y 24 m
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In Good Day!: The Paul Harvey Story, author Paul J. Batura follows the remarkable life of one of the founding fathers of the news media. Paul Harvey started his career during the Great Depression and narrated America's story day by day, through wars and peace, the threat of communism and the crumbling of old colonial powers, consumer booms and eventual busts.
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Should have been better
- De Royce Brown en 12-21-09
De: Paul J. Batura
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The Last Love Song
- A Biography of Joan Didion
- De: Tracy Daugherty
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne
- Duración: 26 h y 43 m
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Joan Didion lived a life in the public and private eye with her late husband, writer John Gregory Dunne, whom she met while the two were working in New York City, when Didion was at Vogue and Dunne was writing for Time. They became wildly successful writing partners when they moved to Los Angeles and cowrote screenplays and adaptations together. Didion is well known for her literary journalistic style in both fiction and nonfiction.
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Riveted for 1591 miles
- De Kaysi12 en 04-11-16
De: Tracy Daugherty
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Street Gang
- The Complete History of Sesame Street
- De: Michael Davis
- Narrado por: Caroll Spinney
- Duración: 8 h y 21 m
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When the first episode aired on Nov. 10, 1969, Sesame Street revolutionized the way education was presented to children on television. It has since become the longest-running children's show in history, and today reaches 8 million pre-schoolers on 350 PBS stations and airs in 120 countries. Street Gang is the compelling and often comical story of the creation and history of this media masterpiece and pop culture landmark.
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An important subject, but hardly gripping
- De Scott T. Hards en 09-24-10
De: Michael Davis
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Levittown
- Two Families, One Tycoon, and the Fight for Civil Rights in America's Legendary Suburb
- De: David Kushner
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert
- Duración: 7 h y 57 m
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In the decade after World War II , one entrepreneurial family helped thousands of people buy into the American dream of owning a home. The Levitts, William, Alfred, and their father, Abe, pooled their talents to create storybook towns with affordable little houses. They laid out the welcome mat - but not to everyone. Levittown had a Whites-only policy.
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1959
- The Year Everything Changed
- De: Fred Kaplan
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
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Acclaimed national security columnist and noted cultural critic Fred Kaplan looks past the 1960s to the year that really changed AmericaWhile conventional accounts focus on the 60s as the era of pivotal change that swept the nation, Fred Kaplan argues that it was 1959 that ushered in the wave of tremendous cultural, political, and scientific shifts that would play out in the decades that followed.
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Facinating look at a neglected moment in history
- De James en 05-25-11
De: Fred Kaplan
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Can't Stop Won't Stop
- A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
- De: Jeff Chang
- Narrado por: Mirron Willis
- Duración: 19 h y 33 m
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Forged in the fires of the Bronx and Kingston, Jamaica, hip-hop became the Esperanto of youth rebellion and a generation-defining movement. In a post-civil rights era defined by deindustrialization and globalization, hip-hop crystallized a multiracial, polycultural generation's worldview and transformed American politics and culture. But that epic story has never been told with this kind of breadth, insight, and style.
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Not About Hip Hop Music
- De A. Yerkes en 09-06-19
De: Jeff Chang
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Everybody Thought We Were Crazy
- Dennis Hopper, Brooke Hayward, and 1960s Los Angeles
- De: Mark Rozzo
- Narrado por: Jason Culp
- Duración: 12 h y 9 m
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Los Angeles in the 1960s: riots in Watts and on the Sunset Strip, wild weekends in Malibu, late nights at The Daisy discotheque, openings at the Ferus Gallery, and the convergence of pop art, rock and roll, and the New Hollywood. At the center of it all, one inspired, improbable, and highly combustible couple—Dennis Hopper and Brooke Hayward—lived out the emblematic love story of ’60s L.A.
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Wonderful!
- De Rob en 06-07-22
De: Mark Rozzo
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Smoketown
- De: Mark Whitaker
- Narrado por: Prentice Onayemi
- Duración: 13 h y 30 m
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Mark Whitaker's Smoketown is a captivating portrait of this unsung community and a vital addition to the story of black America. It depicts how ambitious Southern migrants were drawn to a steel-making city on a strategic river junction; how they were shaped by its schools and a spirit of commerce with roots in the Gilded Age; and how their world was eventually destroyed by industrial decline and urban renewal. Whitaker takes listeners on a rousing, revelatory journey - and offers a timely reminder that Black History is not all bleak.
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Hopes for Pittsburgh aka "Up South"
- De Dr. Pepper en 05-01-18
De: Mark Whitaker
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Outlaw
- Waylon, Willie, Kris, and the Renegades of Nashville
- De: Michael Streissguth
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 7 h y 37 m
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Waylon Jennings. Willie Nelson. Kris Kristofferson. Three renegade musicians. Three unexpected stars. Three men who changed Nashville and country music forever. Streissguth's new book brings to life an incredible chapter in musical history and reveals for the first time a surprising outlaw zeitgeist in Nashville. Based on extensive research and probing interviews with key players, what emerges is a fascinating glimpse into three of the most legendary artists of our times and the definitive story of how they changed music in Nashville and everywhere.
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Revealing little-known Details does Captivate!
- De Cody Meyer en 11-20-17
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The One
- The Life and Music of James Brown
- De: R. J. Smith
- Narrado por: Kevin R. Free
- Duración: 14 h y 11 m
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Senior editor at L.A. Magazine RJ Smith saw his first book, The Great Black Way, win the coveted California Book Award. With The One, Smith profiles one of the 20th century’s most innovative musical icons, the Godfather of Soul himself, James Brown. Drawing on extensive research and captivating interviews, Smith chronicles Brown’s rise from abject poverty to the pinnacle of fame, while also detailing Brown’s work as a civil rights activist and entrepreneur.
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pitiable, lovable, despicable,understandable
- De Anonymous User en 01-06-13
De: R. J. Smith
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Respect Yourself
- Stax Records and the Soul Explosion
- De: Robert Gordon
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 17 h y 54 m
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The story of Stax Records unfolds like a Greek tragedy. A white brother and sister build a record company that becomes a monument to racial harmony in 1960’s segregated south Memphis. Their success is startling, and Stax soon defines an international sound. Then, after losses both business and personal, the siblings part, and the brother allies with a visionary African-American partner. Under integrated leadership, Stax explodes as a national player until, Icarus-like, they fall from great heights to a tragic demise.
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Great narration
- De A. K. Moore en 10-29-14
De: Robert Gordon
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John Lennon
- The Life
- De: Philip Norman
- Narrado por: Graeme Malcolm
- Duración: 12 h y 52 m
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Philip Norman turns his formidable talent to the Beatle for whom belonging to the world's most beloved pop group was never enough. Drawing on previously untapped sources, and with unprecedented access to all the major characters, here is the definitive portrait of John Lennon. This biography takes a fresh and penetrating look at Lennon's much-chronicled life, including the songs that have turned him, posthumously, into almost a secular saint.
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Really Bad Abridgement Job (slash job)
- De Let's Be Reasonable en 12-04-08
De: Philip Norman
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Thelonious Monk
- The Life and Times of an American Original
- De: Robin DG Kelley
- Narrado por: Sean Crisden
- Duración: 25 h y 30 m
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Thelonious Monk is the critically acclaimed, gripping saga of an artist's struggle to "make it" without compromising his musical vision. It is a story that, like its subject, reflects the tidal ebbs and flows of American history in the 20th century. To his fans, he was the ultimate hipster; to his detractors, he was temperamental, eccentric, taciturn, or childlike. His angular melodies and dissonant harmonies shook the jazz world to its foundations, ushering in the birth of "bebop" and establishing Monk as one of America's greatest composers.
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The definitive bio of Monk
- De ricardo en 12-27-17
De: Robin DG Kelley
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Third Coast
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- 02-04-18
reader doesn’t seem to like book
After listening for an hour, I read the book instead. Don’t listen to this one; read it.
The author puts a rather heavier emphasis on intellectual history than social political economic physical, but for me that was great, because I’ve actually met some of the intellectuals mentioned.
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- Joan Blumenthal, NCOPE
- 09-05-13
All That Jazz!
Would you try another book from Thomas Dyja and/or David Drummond?
If you want to know about more about Chicago, this book is very interesting. I learned a lot about the early political, art,Chicago writers, and architecture history, etc., up until the 1960's. The author did spend a lot of time on Kukla, Fran, and Ollie, and also spoke unfavorably about the University of Chicago, which I found rather disturbing.
What I really hated is the reader. Boring, boring, boring!
Would you be willing to try another one of David Drummond’s performances?
Absolutely not!
Could you see The Third Coast being made into a movie or a TV series? Who should the stars be?
Not a movie, but maybe a TV drama.
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- Cynthia
- 08-08-13
Black Chicago/White Chicago - 1930-1960
I was just on vacation in Chicago, and I purchased a 3 day Chicago Trolley "Hop On Hop Off" package. The South Tour to Hyde Park was the most memorable, but not because we saw President Obama's Kenwood home. The Black tour driver had grown up and lived in Hyde Park and lived there his entire life, and pointed out where clubs had been that he'd seen legendary performers including Muddy Waters, Mahalia Jackson, Howlin' Wolf . . . He ran through a 'who's who' of jazz, the blues, and rock-and-roll in the 50's. Along with universal landmarks such as the location of the first nuclear reaction (The University of Chicago), he pointed out Black landmarks such as the office of The Defender, an influential Black newspaper founded in 1905. This book has them all.
The other tours included Chicago institutions landmarks, especially skyscrapers. I am still not sure just how many buildings I saw that Mies van der Rohe designed, or if I kept seeing the same stark buildings. I can appreciate the idea of 'less is more', but I'm not a fan of Bauhaus - Louis Sullivan's Beaux Arts skyscrapers, with their lush architectural detail, captured my imagination. The tour guides never mentioned Sullivan, and if I hadn't read this book, I wouldn't have known one architect was most influential for that school.
Thomas Dyja's "The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream" (2013) captures Black Chicago and White Chicago from the end of the depression to the early 1960's. Dyja highlights Black Chicago's astounding cultural contributions in music and art (Richard Wright's "Native Son" (1940), and Pulitzer prize winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 -2000), and so on) during a time of often violently enforced segregation. "The Third Coast" compares the parallel but mostly separate achievements by Whites in the arts (the birth and rebirths of what eventually became "Second City", Laszlo Moholy-Nagy's Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology and his New Vision, incorporating art and technology to make art accessible to all). Dyla also discusses what sociology writer Malcolm Gladwell calls 'connectors' ("The Tipping Point" 2000) that bridged the cultures, including actor/writer Studs Terkel (1912 - 2008), and surprisingly, the puppet show "Kukla, Fran and Ollie" (1947 - 1957).
"The Third Coast" is set against Chicago's endemic political corruption, especially the covert racial segregation tactics of 1955 - 1975 Mayor Richard J. Daley. To this day, Chicago is one of the most segregated cities in the United States.
Even though the listen for this book is more than 17 hours, I wanted more. Writer Nelson Algren (1909 - 1981) had a long affair with Simone de Beauvoir (1908 - 1986), and he encouraged her to write "The Second Sex" (1949). How important was Nelson, compared to de Beauvoir's relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre? Dyla's look at Hugh Heffner's "Playboy" magazine and empire is combines Heffner's geeky adolescent longing with a pragmatic, too briefly described business plan. And can any writing really make you feel Sun Ra's music, or see William R. Dawson's art? There are so many more Black and White Chicagoans Dyla fascinated me with. That's the mark of a good scholarly work of non-fiction: it doesn't answer all questions, it gives you the framework to find what you want to know more about.
The Audible edition includes a downloadable .pdf with photos. Download that along with the book.
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- J. Meyer
- 11-20-15
Meh
David Drummond must not be a native Chicagoan. He mispronounce many street names and names of locals.
The story has an extremely negative slant on our fair city. Chicago does have its share of problems, but we're not all bad
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- Katie
- 10-05-15
Terrible narration.
I'm 35 minutes in, and don't think I can listen to this anymore. The narrator has a horrible, stilted, Captain Kirk meets Christopher Walken quality to his performance. I noticed it when I learned to the sample and thought I could handle it. It's like nails on a chalkboard and it's driving me up the wall. The subject matter is interesting but that doesn't matter as the story is ruined by the distracting and annoying style of the narrator.
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- junie
- 02-07-14
worse book about chicago
What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?
Needed to focus on a few topics. Way too superficial about too many things.
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