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1800s onwards : The story of a city…
Make Me A City: a novel of Chicago
Why a Booktrail?
1800s onwards : The story of a city…
What you need to know before your trail
It is 1800. On desolate, marshy ground between Lake Michigan and the Illinois River, a man builds a house and a city is born …
This masterful debut novel spans Chicago’s tumultuous first century, showing how a city is made: by a succession of vivid, sometimes villainous individuals and their cumulative invention, energy, and vision.
Travel Guide
Travel BookTrail style to the city of Chicago
We meet the city’s unacknowledged founder, a descendant of colonisers and slaves; witness the dispersal of the indigenous Native Americans; hear stories of an entrepreneur, an engineer, a courageous female reporter, and a corrupt alderman; and track the lives of immigrants from all over the world, as they struggle for acceptance in a country they have built.
Chicago, its inhabitants and its history are brought to dazzling, colourful life in this epic tale that speaks of not just one city but America as a whole, and of how people come to find their place in the world.
BookTrail Boarding Pass: Make Me A City – a novel of Chicago
Destination: Chicago Author/guide: Jonathan Carr Departure Time: 1800 onwards
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