| Book Reviews | The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 130.3

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Front-Page Pittsburgh: Two Hundred Years of the Post-Gazette. By Clarke M. Thomas. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005. xii, 332p. Notes, bibliography, illustrations, index. $34.95.)
In the 220 years since the Pittsburgh Gazette debuted in a small frontier outpost west of the Alleghenies, the city has seen its fortunes ebb and flow. By 1910, Pittsburgh was the nation's eighth largest city; today it ranks fifty-fourth and is losing groung. The steel mills that fueled Pittsburgh's growth—and inspired a nineteenth-century visitor to describe the city as "hell with the lid off"—are nearly all gone, and with them the smoke and ash that sometimes reduced daytime visibility to ten feet.	1
The issues, the people and the printing presses that produced that first edition of the Gazette long ago turned to dust. And yet, as Clarke M. Thomas points out in Front-Page Pittsburgh, one thing has remained constant: "From the outset," he writes, "the Gazette reflected the propensities that would run through its history: a serious nature, a friendly attitude towards business, involvement in community affairs, and openness to varying opinions—within limits" (p. 6).	. . .

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