The Chicago Diaries of John M. Wing: 1865-1866 - Rilegato

Wing, John M.; Schwarzlose, Richard A.

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ISBN 10: 0809324830 ISBN 13: 9780809324835

Casa editrice: Southern Illinois Univ Pr, 2002

Riassunto

A historian of printing and calligraphy, Williams (design, U. of Chicago) presents the diary of publisher and book collector Wing depicting the Windy City between the end of the Civil War and the great fire of 1871. He annotates each entry individually. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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L'autore:

Robert Williams is Assistant Design Manager of the University of Chicago Press and a longtime student of the history of printing. 

 

Paul F. Gehl is custodian of the John M. Wing collection at the Newberry Library. 

 

Richard A. Schawarzlose is a professor at the Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University.

Product Description:

The personal - and often intimate - diaries of fledgling journalist and entrepreneur John Mansir Wing create a unique portrait of a rough-and-tumble Chicago in the first few years following the Civil War. Wing writes of a city filled with new immigrants, exsoldiers, and the thriving merchant class making its fortune from both before the great fire of 1871 left much of the city in ashes. Transcribed and edited by noted Chicago bibliophile and historian Robert Williams, and published in cooperation with the Caxton Club, this volume also details the early adventures of a rural Eastern who came to the "Metropolis of the West" in his early twenties and worked for some of the most influential journalists of his day. Wing shared cigars and conversation with notable politicians, businessmen, and war heroes including Sherman and Grant, all the while conducting an active romantic life with members of his own sex in boarding houses and barrooms. Wing's greatest passion was for book collecting. Following a successful career in trade journal publishing, he provided an endowment to create the John M. Wing Foundation at Chicago's famed Newberry Library. The Wing Foundation became the first American public collection devoted to the history of printing; it remains today among the nation's best resources for the study of the bibliographic arts. Despite his lasting importance in publishing and philanthropy, and the fact that no serious history of Chicago can be written without reference to many of his publications, John M. Wing has been largely absent from most histories of the city's movers and shakers. Complete with historical annotations and a bibliography of Wing's writings for the press, this fascinating personal account reclaims his deserved place in Chicago life and lore.

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• Editore: Southern Illinois Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0809324830
• ISBN 13: 9780809324835
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 140
• Redattore: Williams Robert