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Informationen zum Autor June Skinner Sawyers, a writer and editor, is the author of Bob Dylan: New York (2011), Tougher Than The Rest: The 100 Best Bruce Springsteen Songs (2006) and Celtic Music: A Complete Guide (2001). Sawyers is the editor of several literary anthologies, including The Greenwich Village Reader (2001) and Dreams of Elsewhere: The Selected Travel Writings of Robert Louis Stevenson (2003) and several music anthologies: The Best in Rock Fiction (2005), Racing in the Street: The Bruce Springsteen Reader ( 2004) and Read the Beatles: Classic and New Writings on the Beatles, Their Legacy, and Why They Still Matte r (2006). Klappentext The famous, the infamous, and the unjustly forgotten - all receive their due in this biographical dictionary of the people who have made Chicago one of the world's great cities. Here are the life stories—provided in short, entertaining capsules - of Chicago's cultural giants as well as the industrialists, architects, and politicians who literally gave shape to the city. Zusammenfassung The famous, the infamous, and the unjustly forgotten - all receive their due in this biographical dictionary of the people who have made Chicago one of the world’s great cities. Here are the life stories—provided in short, entertaining capsules - of Chicago’s cultural giants as well as the industrialists, architects, and politicians who literally gave shape to the city.
