Neil Harris and Teri J. Edelstein
The Chicagoan: A Lost Magazine of the Jazz Age
Chicago:
University of Chicago Press,
2009.
400 pp.; 81 color ills.; 301 b/w ills.
Cloth
$65.00
(9780226317618)
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August 25, 2009
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The rediscovery of the Chicagoan began in a classic moment of scholarly serendipity, when Neil Harris happened on the magazine in the stacks of the University of Chicago’s Regenstein Library, one of only two institutions with a complete set of issues. Research revealed that the magazine, published between 1926 and 1935, truly had been lost, along with a record of many of its contributing writers and artists. Part history, part sampler, and thoroughly readable, The...