While browsing the stacks of the Regenstein Library at the University of Chicago some years ago, noted historian Neil Harris made a surprising disc...
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Apr 16, 2009
Carol
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I always lament the fact that there is no "Chicagoan" to rival "The New Yorker." Apparently, there was at one time, but it has long since been forgotten. Neil Harris shows us why. Harris does a great job pulling together the life of this magazine, but his work highlights how it never had a chance as an object of respect, neither here nor certainly on the east coast. Like many suburban community newspapers (oh, ouch), the Chicagoan was doomed to parochialism and only occasiona
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Jun 29, 2009
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Neil Harris, a professor of history at the University of Chicago, was flipping through “a group of plainly bound volumes” when he stumbled upon the long-lost arts magazine The Chicagoan. Those volumes, one of only two substantially complete sets known to exist, formed the contents of this spectacular coffee table book, released by the University of Chicago Press. It was, as Harris reca More...
Neil Harris, a professor of history at the University of Chicago, was flipping through “a group of plainly bound volumes” when he stumbled upon the long-lost arts magazine The Chicagoan. Those volumes, one of only two substantially complete sets known to exist, formed the contents of this spectacular coffee table book, released by the University of Chicago Press. It was, as Harris reca More...
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