Chicago's left bank.
Publisher: H. Regnery Co.
Published: 1953
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
Subjects: Chicago (Ill.) -- Intellectual life.; Chicago (Ill.) -- Social life and customs.
Description: With an urbane sense of humor & sureness of touch, the author sketches the history & present status of the 'Seven Lively & Imperishable Arts' in the Windy City, with asides into education, business & vice. He shows how innovation has been the demon of Chicago, & how the city, for all its materialism, has been & can increasingly be the place of incubation, the seedbed, the creative center of America--& how, too, it is usually outbid for the products of its creativity by New York & Hollywood. In spite of this, Smith sees Chicago as the Florence to New York's Rome.