Thanks for your responses to our survey to choose what to read for September’s Book Club!
Your choice was:
• Nature’s Metropolis, Chicago and the Great West, by William Cronon
A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and Winner of the Bancroft Prize. “No one has written a better book about a city…Nature’s Metropolis is elegant testimony to the proposition that economic, urban, environmental, and business history can be as graceful, powerful, and fascinating as a novel.” ―Kenneth T. Jackson, Boston Globe
In this groundbreaking work, William Cronon gives us an environmental perspective on the history of nineteenth-century America. By exploring the ecological and economic changes that made Chicago America’s most dynamic city and the Great West its hinterland, Mr. Cronon opens a new window onto our national past. This is the story of city and country becoming ever more tightly bound in a system so powerful that it reshaped the American landscape and transformed American culture. The world that emerged is our own.
Winner of the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize
Our September sessions will be held on either Wednesday or Thursday (9/16 -17; 9/23 – 24; 9/30 -10/1) lat 4:00 PM. Please indicate your preference when you register at the link below.
After registration closes on Sept. 1, you’ll receive an email with sections of book which will be the focus of discussion on each date. Nearer to each meeting you will also receive from that week’s moderator a list of ideas/questions to get our discussion flowing.
Remember, this isn’t a class, just an exchange of thoughts on subjects we’re all passionate about, Chicago and Architecture. Hope you can join us!
Register HERE.