THE GREAT FIRE AND THE MYTH OF CHICAGO by Ross Miller (University of Chicago: $24.95; 287 pp.)

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By James Holston July 29, 1990 12 AM PT Share via Close extra sharing options Email Facebook X LinkedIn Threads Reddit WhatsApp Copy Link URL Copied! Print


” . . . a valuable contribution to the larger study of modern culture. Its merit is to look at the production of modernity as a self-conscious means by which people interpret their own


history.”


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