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A New York Times Notable 100 Book Of The Year And Chicago Tribune Best Book Of 2013Though 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 Coastto 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 We 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 Massmarket 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 Avantgarde Jazz Of Sun Ra. In Performance, It Was The Intimacy Of Kukla, Fran And Ollie, The Chicago School Of Television, And The Improvisational 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 Chaosboth Constructive And Destructiveof This Period Was Set Into Motion By The Second Migration North Of African Americans During World War Two. 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 Costmonolithic Housing Projects For The Black Community And A New Kind Of Selfsatisfied Provincialism That Sped The End Of Chicago'S Role As America'S Meeting Place. In Luminous Prose, Chicago Native Thomas Dyja Recreates The Story Of The City In Its Postwar Prime And Explains Its Profound Impact On Modern America.
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