{"product_id":"chicago-in-quotations-9781851244119","title":"Chicago in Quotations","description":"Carl Sandburg was an ardent champion of Chicago, famously issuing the challenge: \"Show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and strong and cunning.\" For pianist Otis Spann, it was the \"mother of the blues,\" and a beacon to \"every good musician who ever left the South.\" But the union leader Eugene V. Debs had harsher words for the city, calling it \"unfit for human habitation,\" and Rudyard Kipling claimed it was \"inhabited by savages\" and hoped never to see it again. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Whether you look upon the city with admiration, disgust, or an incongruous combination of the two, Chicago has captured the imagination of generations of poets, novelists, journalists, and commentators who have visited or called it home. \u003ci\u003eChicago in Quotations\u003c\/i\u003e offers a compendium of the most colorful impressions that citizens of--or visitors to--the Second City will appreciate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eShea, Stuart:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eStuart Shea\u003c\/b\u003e is an editor and contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe Baseball Encyclopedia: The Complete and Definitive Record of Major League Baseball\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Emerald Guide to Baseball, Who's Who in Baseball\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSABR's Baseball Research Journal\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Chicago, twenty-four blocks north of Wrigley Field.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bodleian Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50493190668562,"sku":"9781851244119","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b5494d4a-569a-41a5-911d-2faf3e9e73ca.jpg?v=1730635044","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/chicago-in-quotations-9781851244119","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}