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Chicago : the Second City by A.J. Liebling; drawings by Steinberg is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Chicago : the Second City about?

Many Chicagoans rose in protest over A. J. Liebling’s tongue-in-cheek tour of their fair city in 1952. Liebling found much to admire in the Windy City’s people and culture—its&nbsp;colorful language, its political sophistication, its sense of its own history and specialness, but Liebling offended that city’s image of itself when he discussed its entertainments, its built landscapes, and its mental isolation from the world’s affairs. <p>Liebling, a writer and editor for the New Yorker, lived in Chicago for nearly a year. While he found a home among its colorful inhabitants, he couldn’t help comparing Chicago with some other cities he had seen and loved, notably Paris, London, and especially New York. His magazine columns brought down on him a storm of protests and denials from Chicago’s defenders, and he gently and humorously answers their charges and acknowledges his errors in a foreword written especially for the book edition. Liebling describes the restaurants, saloons, and striptease joints; the newspapers, cocktail parties, and political wards; the university; and the defining event in Chicago’s mythic past, the Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre. Illustrated by Steinberg, Chicago

Who reads Chicago : the Second City?

Author

A.J. Liebling; drawings by Steinberg

Publisher

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780803280359

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Travel

Rating

3.4 / 5 (43 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14