City of Scoundrels: The 12 Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago

by Gary Krist

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Documents the harrowing twelve-day period in Chicago in 1919 during which a blimp crash, a race riot, a crippling transit strike, and a sensational child murder case challenged the city's modernization efforts.
  • ISBN10 0307454290
  • ISBN13 9780307454294
  • Publish Date 17 April 2012 (first published 1 January 2012)
  • Publish Status Remaindered
  • Out of Print 8 August 2015
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Random House USA Inc
  • Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House Inc
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 352
  • Language English