

City of Scoundrels
The 12 Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago
Author: Gary Krist
Narrator: Rob Shapiro
Unabridged: 9 hr 34 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
Published: 04/17/2012
Categories: Nonfiction, History, Us History, Social Science, Sociology, Modern History
Synopsis
It began on a balmy Monday afternoon when a blimp in flames crashed through the roof of a busy downtown bank, incinerating those inside. Within days, a racial incident at a hot, crowded South Side beach spiraled into one of the worst urban riots in American history, followed by a transit strike that paralyzed the city. Then, when it seemed as if things could get no worse, police searching for a six-year-old girl discovered her body in a dark North Side basement.
City of Scoundrels captures the tumultuous birth of the modern American city, with all of its light and dark aspects in vivid relief.