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Gary, the Most American of All American Cities
S. Paul O´hara
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Description for Gary, the Most American of All American Cities
Paperback. A century of change in an American industrial utopia Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBND; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 318.
U.S. Steel created Gary, Indiana. The new steel plant and town built on the site in 1906 were at once a triumph of industrial capitalism and a bold experiment in urban planning. Gary became the canvas onto which the American public projected its hopes and fears about modern, industrial society. In its prime, Gary was known as "the magic city," "steel's greatest achievement," and "an industrial utopia"; later it would be called "the very model of urban decay." S. Paul O'Hara traces this stark reversal of fortune and reveals America's changing expectations. He delivers a riveting account of the boom or bust mentality of American industrialism from the turn of the 20th century to the present day.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253222886
SKU
V9780253222886
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About S. Paul O´hara
S. Paul O'Hara is Assistant Professor of History at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Reviews for Gary, the Most American of All American Cities
Until very recently . . . work probing the cultural dimensions of metropolitan change has been largely absent from the canon of urban and suburban studies. With Gary, the Most American of All American Cities, historian S. Paul O'Hara offers a deeply researched, carefully narrated corrrective that is both insightful and important.
Technology and Culture
O'Hara draws on a wonderful array of vignettes and quotes from writers, celebrities, visitors, and the media to illustrate, with good effect, the different views of Gary.
Business History Review
O'Hara has produced a highly readable and engaging account appropriate for adoption in courses about twentieth-century American culture and urban history.
Indiana Magazine of History
Technology and Culture
O'Hara draws on a wonderful array of vignettes and quotes from writers, celebrities, visitors, and the media to illustrate, with good effect, the different views of Gary.
Business History Review
O'Hara has produced a highly readable and engaging account appropriate for adoption in courses about twentieth-century American culture and urban history.
Indiana Magazine of History