Chicago's public wits
Subtitle: a chapter in the American comic spirit
By: edited, with commentaries, by Kenny J. Williams and Bernard Duffey.
Contributors: Williams, Kenny J.; Duffey, Bernard I., 1917-
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
Subjects: American wit and humor -- Illinois -- Chicago.; Chicago (Ill.) -- Humor.
Description: Spanning nearly a century and a half of Chicago's newspaper humor, Chicago's Public Wits reveals the city's evolving sense of itself, its toughness, dynamism, and honesty-its place as a unique and particularly American phenomenon.