Volume 41, Number 11 · June 9, 1994
Sons and Daughters of Chicago
By Garry Wills
Plan of Chicago
by Daniel H. Burnham, by Edward H. Bennett, edited by Charles Moore
Princeton Architectural Press, 164 pp., $75.00
Writing Chicago: Modernism, Ethnography, and the Novel
by Carla Cappetti
Columbia University Press, 274 pp., $39.50; $17.50 (paper)
Henry Hobson Richardson: J.J. Glessner House, Chicago
by Elaine Harrington
Ernst Wasmuth/Distributed Art Publishers, 60 pp., $40.00
Frank Lloyd Wright 10, 1994
An exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York February 20–May
Frank Lloyd Wright: Architect
catalog of the exhibition edited by Terence Riley
Museum of Modern Art/Abrams, 344 pp., $60.00
When the forces of good are mobilized against Frank Cowperwood, the financial predator in Theodore Dreiser's The Titan, they have to use tainted instruments to encompass his downfall. Smiling Mike Tiernan and Emerald Pat Kerrigan, saloonkeepers and vote deliverers, are the sordid men who wield power in Chicago's Loop district. Dreiser modeled them closely upon Bathhouse John Coughlin and Hinky Dink Kenna, the most famous ward bosses in the scrambling years of Chicago's growth. Bathhouse was elected an alderman in 1892, when the city was creating the Columbian Exposition. He remained in the office for forty-five years, ending his days of power as a flunky to A1 Capone.
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