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Rated: 9 times. Average rating 4.22
Description
Documents the harrowing 12-day period in 1919 Chicago during which a blimp crash, a race riot, a crippling transit strike and a sensational child murder case challenged the city's modernization efforts. By the author of The White Cascade. 50,000 first printing.
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