In this groundbreaking anthology, award-winning author Kenan Heise profiles the remarkable contributions of the many and varied creative, born out of twentieth-century Chicago's chaos -- such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Upton Sinclair, Edna Ferber, Louis Armstrong, Studs Terkel, Lorraine Hansberry, Carl Sandburg, Li-Young Lee, Gwendolyn Brooks, L. Frank Baum, and Edgar Rice Burroughs. The energy and excitement of post-Civil War Chicago are captured in Chaos, Creativity and Culture: An Anthology of Chicago in the Twentieth Century.

Chaos, Creativity, and Culture

Politics & Social Sciences

Heise, Kenan

Social Sciences

Booksales

In this groundbreaking anthology, award-winning author Kenan Heise profiles the remarkable contributions of the many creative people, born out of 20th-century Chicago's chaos. Among those profiled are Frank Lloyd Wright, Upton Sinclair, Edna Ferber, Studs Terkel, Louis Armstrong, Lorraine Hansberry, Carl Sandburg, and Edgar Rice Burroughs. 100 photos .

Chaos, Creativity, and Culture: A Sampling of Chicago in the Twentieth Century

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Gibbs-Smith

A boy describes his experiences growing up in Depression-era Ferndale, Michigan, and the clashes between his father and his Aunt Ella, who finds her own ways to cope with poverty

Aunt Ella Stories

Literature & Fiction

Short Stories & Anthologies

Academy Chicago Pub

A history of the great metropolis, Chicago, and it's place in the fields of enterprise. A beautifully illustrated of this great city by the lake.

Chicago, center for enterprise: An illustrated history

History

Americas

Windsor Publications

Alphonse: A One Man Play Based on the Words of Al Capone

Kenan Heise

Resurrection Mary: A Ghost Story

Genre Fiction

From the Book Jacket: "'Tales from an Urban Wilderness,' written with a Tribune colleague, Kenan heist, is a combination of anecdote relating to Holingue's continuing efforts to aid the bird and animal residents of Lincoln Park, and descriptions of some of the human frequenters of the same area, including a surprising number of homeless persons...." A Chicago Historical Bookworks publication (1994)

Tales from an Urban Wilderness

Science & Math

Holingue, Scott

Biological Sciences

Chicago Historical BookWorks

Our Dinosaurs Are Dying: New American Poetry

Poetry

Chicago Originals: A Cast of the City's Colorful Characters

Baumann, Ed

Bonus Books

Journey of Silas P. Bigelow

Collage

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