OPEN STACKS | #19 Hyde Park Legends & Lore: Norman Bolotin, David Garrow & Susan Eleuterio
September 17th, 2017
Hello, neighbor! This week on Open Stacks, we take a stroll around the neighborhood. Norman Bolotin discusses his book Chicago's Grand Midway: A Walk Around the World at the Columbian Exposition, detailing the park's role in the World's Fair of 1893. David Garrow discusses Obama's early political career on the South Side and his book Rising Star. Plus, Susan Eleuterio on the president's favorite local spot, Valois Cafeteria.
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Paperback | $22.95 | 9780252082429
Created as a centerpiece for the Columbian Exposition of 1893, the Midway Plaisance was for one summer the world's most wondrous thoroughfare. A journey along its length immersed millions of spellbound visitors in a spectacle that merged exoticism with enlightenment and artistic crafts with...
Hardcover | $45.00 | 9780062641830
New York Times Bestseller
Rising Star is the definitive account of Barack Obama's formative years that made him the man who became the forty-fourth president of the United States--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ...
Paperback | $35.00 | 9781496810854
With contributions by Barbara Banks, Sheila Bock, Susan Eleuterio, Jillian Gould, Phillis Humphries, Michael Owen Jones, Alicia Kristen, William G. Lockwood, Yvonne R. Lockwood, Lucy M. Long, LuAnne Roth, Rachelle H. Saltzman, Charlene Smith, Annie Tucker, and Diane Tye Comfort Food...