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Growing Up with a City
Louise de Koven Bowen
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Description for Growing Up with a City
Paperback. Offers a portrait of Chicago and its growing pains from a woman's perspective. This title shows how women made a difference in Chicago. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5334 x 3556 x 19. Weight in Grams: 281.
Louise de Koven Bowen grew up in a Chicago caught between frontier and urbanity--a young city struggling to wipe the mud from its boots. Born into privilege and comfort, she demonstrated from an early age an extraordinary sense of social responsibility and alertness to how she could improve the circumstances of those around her. Smart, savvy, and bracingly candid, Growing Up with a City offers a rare portrait of Chicago and its growing pains from a woman's perspective.
"When I took a walk," Bowen says, "I liked to go into the poorer parts of the town and ... Read more
Louise de Koven Bowen grew up in a Chicago caught between frontier and urbanity--a young city struggling to wipe the mud from its boots. Born into privilege and comfort, she demonstrated from an early age an extraordinary sense of social responsibility and alertness to how she could improve the circumstances of those around her. Smart, savvy, and bracingly candid, Growing Up with a City offers a rare portrait of Chicago and its growing pains from a woman's perspective.
"When I took a walk," Bowen says, "I liked to go into the poorer parts of the town and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252070440
SKU
V9780252070440
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Reviews for Growing Up with a City
"A charming record of [Bowen's] contributions to building 19th and 20th century Chicago... [Bowen] had a taste for stirring things up, a strong social conscience, seemingly unlimited energy and formidable administrative talent."
Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times