Chicago ragtime: Another look at Chicago, 1880-1920 [Hardcover]

Richard Lindberg (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 282 pages
• Publisher: Icarus Press; First edition (1985)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0896511030
• ISBN-13: 978-0896511033
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.4 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,595,773 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars What started it all for me., August 8, 2008

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Mario Gomes (Montreal, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Chicago ragtime: Another look at Chicago, 1880-1920 (Hardcover)

Many people have asked me what started myalcaponemuseum and my interest in gangland Chicago. My answer mostly consists of the performance by Robert DeNiro in The Untouchables. If there's one book that started my interest before DeNiro, then this one is most definitely it! I got it two years before DeNiro's performance and was quickly wrapped up in Mr. Lindberg's storytelling of old Chicago. The book is set right before Al Capone set foot in Chi-town. So many interesting non Capone stories in here. I highly recommend it to all the Chicago buffs out there. It helps understand how Capone would come to be and what was going on before in old Chicago. We get a great glimpse of how Chicago was named, events after the great fire, it's players, movers, shakers and the Great Mike McDonald etc... Just a great book with terrific illustrations! Lindberg makes the readers use their imagination, and it works!

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Mario Gomes
Founder of myalcaponemuseum