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Hyde Park (IL) (Images of America)

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Hyde Park is one of the unique neighborhoods of our nation--it's where nuclear fission first happened, and where Mel Torme went to high school. Max Grinnell brings the history of this neighborhood to life with hundreds of well-chosen pictures, captioned with verve, and a few short essays on the development of the neighborhood. It would make a great Christmas gift for Hyde Park oldtimers, newcomers, and anyone interested in urban development in America.

Well written and full of information, Hyde Park, Illinois, is a perfect book for anyone interested in History, Chicago, Urban development, or our American society. Difficult to put down and highly readable, I've been recommending it to all of my history-loving friends.

Hyde Park is an incredibly interesting neighborhood due to its history as a covenant community to deny African Americans residence, as the intellectual haven of the University of Chicago, and as an example of urban planning and subsidized housing. The author makes an academic analysis of the dynamics of history and urban planning readable for a layman, making this book a must-buy for neighborhood activists, city planners and those interested in the history of Chicago.

titles can be deceiving but i quickly realized that this book is about the history of Hyde Park in chicago.well written and great for the causal reader and academic the book should be given as a xmas present. can be bought on amazon. com