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American apocalypse : the great fire and the myth of Chicago
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- Summary
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Asks why the Chicago Fire is emblematic, how it achieved mythic proportions, and how modern myths are created.
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- Creator
- Ross Miller
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1990
- Physical Details
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- ix, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0226525996, 9780226525990
- OCLC
- ocm20392822
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-272) and index.
- Introduction -- The Chicago fire: the making of a legend -- Reluctant modernism: the past as present -- Derrick time: architecture, memory, and the poetics of ruin -- The fire as image: architecture and the problem of loss -- The shanty and the skyscraper -- Wright's piano: imagining the new Chicago -- Chicago black and white: the court, the university, the Midway, and the street