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Duluth May Be The City Of Untold Delights As Lampooned In A Kentucky Congressman's Speech In 1871. Or It May Be Portrayed By A Joke In Woody Allen's Film Manhattan. Or Then Again, It May Be The Zenith City Of The Unsalted Seas Celebrated By Dr. Thomas Preston Foster, Founder Of The City's First Newspaper. But Whatever Else It May Be, This City Of Granite Hills, Foghorns, And Gritty History, The Last Stop On The Shipping Lanes Of The Great Lakes, Is Undeniably A City With Character--and Characters. Duluth Native Michael Fedo Captures These Characters Through The Happy-go-melancholy Lens Nurtured By The People And Landscape Of His Youth. In Zenith City Fedo Brings It Back Home. Framed By His Reflections On Duluth's Colorful--and Occasionally Very Dark--history And Its Famous Visitors, Such As Sinclair Lewis, Joe Dimaggio, And Bob Dylan, His Memories Make The City As Real As The Boy Next Door But With A Better Story. Here, Among The Graceful, Poignant, And Often Hilarious Remembered Moments--pranks Played On A Severe Teacher, The Family's Unlikely Mob Connections, A Rare Childhood Affliction--are The Coordinates Of Duluth's Larger Landscape: The Diners And Supper Clubs, The Baseball T

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Author

Michael W Fedo

Publisher

University of Minnesota Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781452941356

Category

history

Subjects

History, Biography, Memoir

Rating

3.38 / 5 (26 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14