In a blend of history, memoir, and photography, the Pulitzer Prize winner paints a vivid portrait of this extraordinary American city.
 
Chicago was home to the country’s first skyscraper (a ten-story building built in 1884), and marks the start of the famed Route 66. It is also the birthplace of the remote control (Zenith) and the car radio (Motorola), and the first major American city to elect a woman (Jane Byrne) and...

Millions of Studs Terkel fans have come to know the prizewinning oral historian through his landmark books-"The Good War," Hard Times, Working, Will the Circle Be Unbroken?, and many others. Few people realize, however, that much of Studs's best work was not collected into these thematic volumes and has, in fact, never been published. P. S. brings together these significant and deeply enjoyable writings for the first time. The pieces in P. S. reflect...

A 3-hour celebration of the life and work of the classic Chicago broadcaster and author that was drawn from a 2 -day memorial tribute aired on WFMT radio in Chicago subsequent to his death.