Gary Krist's new book is City of Scoundrels: The 12 Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago.
From his Q & A with Randy Dotinga at the Christian Science Monitor:
Q: What happened in Chicago in 1919?
A: You had a city going from a state of high optimism about the future to the brink of civil collapse and martial law.
The war was over, the influenza epidemic was tapering off, the
Wednesday, 2 May 2012
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