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Book Review


Chicago Dreaming: Midwesterners and the City, 1871–1919. By Timothy B. Spears. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. xxiv, 322 pp. Cloth, $50.00, ISBN 0-226-76873-2. Paper, $20.00, ISBN 0-226-76874-0.)
As someone who many years ago escaped to Chicago from a small Illinois town (Sterling) that was once the home of one of the golden age writers (William Morton "Will" Payne), this reviewer has special empathy with the subjects of Timothy B. Spears's excellent book. The names of Sherwood Anderson, Theodore Dreiser, Carl Sandburg, and Hamlin Garland are familiar to most historians, but Chicago Dreaming exposes another layer of less well-known talent. While this is certainly not the first study of the writers and other intellectuals who left dusty country towns for the Midwest metropolis, this does the most thorough job of exploring the intricate permutations of that theme. . . .
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