Product Description: Gathered together for the first time in this seventh volume of The Library of America's definitive edition of Philip Roth's collected works is the acclaimed American Trilogy, a major milestone in contemporary American literature...read more

Product Description: For the last half century, the novels of Philip Roth have re-energized American fiction and redefined its possibilities, leading the critic Harold Bloom to proclaim Roth “our foremost novelist since Faulkner.” Roth’s comic genius, his imaginative daring, his courage in exploring uncomfortable truths, and his assault on political, cultural, and sexual orthodoxies have made him one of the essential writers of our time...read more

Product Description: A hard-hitting study of how ambition and greed are leading our cities to disaster.Before there was a Ground Zero in New York City, Block 37 was a giant hole in the heart of a great American city. In 1990, Chicago's Block 37 (as a key part of a 27 acre urban renewal project) was razed to the ground...read more

Product Description: In 1996, photographer Bob Thall—walking to his car after completing some work in downtown Chicago—was stopped by something. "I noticed this strange view down an alley," he later wrote. "It wasn't the type of photograph I was doing that year, but the scene stopped me...read more

Product Description: On October 8, 1871, four decades after its founding, Chicago's destiny was rewritten 'with a pen of fire'. In this imaginative and penetrating study, Ross Miller considers the mythic proportions of the Great Chicago Fire as the city reshaped its own tragedy into an archetype of the modern struggle against adversity...read more

An architectural critic and urban historian describes the decay of a block in the heart of downtown Chicago, explaining how the greed, intrigue, loss of industry, neglect of public welfare, and flight of the middle class have become a symbol of the decay of America's cities. 17,500 first printing.

A study of the great Chicago fire examines the disaster's impact on the birth of modernism--in art and architecture, culture, commerce, and urban design