Greater St Louis

Author : Charlie Brennan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781935806561
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amazing St. Louis: 250 Years of Great Tales and Curiosities written by Charlie Brennan and published by . This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know the first mobile phone was used in St. Louis? Or that a St. Louis businessman changed the course of war in the Pacific during World War II? Or that a St. Louisan ended the Cold War? After talking about St. Louis and its people every weekday for the past 25 years, Charlie Brennan has gathered the greatest and most incredible St. Louis stories in celebration of the city's 250th birthday. Brennan divulges how St. Louisans gave the world rock and roll, the cocktail party, the city of Chicago, the musical Cats, and more! That's Amazing St. Louis even explains how St. Louis is home to the first city in America. Brennan also shares some of the world's strangest oddities and curiosities that just happened to take place in the Gateway to the West. Packed with hundreds of almost unknown facts about the people and events of St. Louis, this book is ideal for lovers of this great American city and its rich history.

Author : Zetta Elliott
Publisher : Yearling
ISBN 13 : 0593897218
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dragons in a Bag written by Zetta Elliott and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dragon's out of the bag in this diverse, young urban fantasy from an award-winning author! When Jaxon is sent to spend the day with a mean old lady his mother calls Ma, he finds out she's not his grandmother--but she is a witch! She needs his help delivering baby dragons to a magical world where they'll be safe. There are two rules when it comes to the dragons: don't let them out of the bag, and don't feed them anything sweet. Before he knows it, Jax and his friends Vikram and Kavita have broken both rules! Will Jax get the baby dragons delivered safe and sound? Or will they be lost in Brooklyn forever? AN ALA-ALSC NOTABLE CHILDREN'S BOOK AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR The Dragons in a Bag series continues! Don't miss The Dragon Thief, and The Witch's Apprentice.

Author : Andrew J. Theising
Publisher : Virginia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781891442216
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Made in USA written by Andrew J. Theising and published by Virginia Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first ever comprehensive history of this troubled city, the book includes more than 250 photographs amd images of the people and events that shaped East St. Louis. Andrew Theising, a professor of political science at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, examines the city's past from the prominent role it played in the growth of 19th century industrial America to its presently depleted state. For Theising, East St. Louis is more than just a river city suburb; it is an example of industry creating and then abandoning a city, and it is also one of the most misunderstood cities in America.

Author : James Gilbert
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226293122
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Whose Fair? written by James Gilbert and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-12-15 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair was a major event in early-twentieth-century America. Attracting millions of tourists, it exemplified the Victorian predilection for public spectacle. The Fair has long served as a touchstone for historians interested in American culture prior to World War I and has endured in the memories of generations of St. Louis residents and visitors. In Whose Fair? James Gilbert asks: what can we learn about the lived experience of fairgoers when we compare historical accounts, individual and collective memories, and artifacts from the event? Exploring these differing, at times competing, versions of history and memory prompts Gilbert to dig through a rich trove of archival material. He examines the papers of David Francis, the Fair’s president and subsequent chief archivist; guidebooks and other official publications; the 1944 film Meet Me in St. Louis; diaries, oral histories, and other personal accounts; and a collection of striking photographs. From this dazzling array of sources, Gilbert paints a lively picture of how fairgoers spent their time, while also probing the ways history and memory can complement each other.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greater St. Louis written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : L. U. Reavis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saint Louis: the Future Great City of the World written by L. U. Reavis and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Colin Gordon
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812291506
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mapping Decline written by Colin Gordon and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2014-09-12 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once a thriving metropolis on the banks of the Mississippi, St. Louis, Missouri, is now a ghostly landscape of vacant houses, boarded-up storefronts, and abandoned factories. The Gateway City is, by any measure, one of the most depopulated, deindustrialized, and deeply segregated examples of American urban decay. "Not a typical city," as one observer noted in the late 1970s, "but, like a Eugene O'Neill play, it shows a general condition in a stark and dramatic form." Mapping Decline examines the causes and consequences of St. Louis's urban crisis. It traces the complicity of private real estate restrictions, local planning and zoning, and federal housing policies in the "white flight" of people and wealth from the central city. And it traces the inadequacy—and often sheer folly—of a generation of urban renewal, in which even programs and resources aimed at eradicating blight in the city ended up encouraging flight to the suburbs. The urban crisis, as this study of St. Louis makes clear, is not just a consequence of economic and demographic change; it is also the most profound political failure of our recent history. Mapping Decline is the first history of a modern American city to combine extensive local archival research with the latest geographic information system (GIS) digital mapping techniques. More than 75 full-color maps—rendered from census data, archival sources, case law, and local planning and property records—illustrate, in often stark and dramatic ways, the still-unfolding political history of our neglected cities.

Author : Rand McNally
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780528872952
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greater St. Louis Street Guide written by Rand McNally and published by . This book was released on 2008-05-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ST. LOUIS, INCLUDING ST. LOUIS & ST. CHARLES COUNTIES

Author : Will James
Publisher : New York : C. Scribner's Sons
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cowboys North and South written by Will James and published by New York : C. Scribner's Sons. This book was released on 1924 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Margaret Ann Hubbard
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 1681494167
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saint Louis and the Last Crusade written by Margaret Ann Hubbard and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the 30th title in the very popular, award-winning series of Vision Books on the lives of saints and heroes for youth 9 - 15 years old. Louis IX of France, who took the throne in 1226, had one aim in life - to be a good king. Guided by the advice of his mother, he ruled well and was beloved by his people. At the age of twenty-eight he took the cross of the crusade and, with his army, set out for Egypt to defeat the Saracens, the most energetic enemies of the Holy Land. Instead, the Saracens charged to victory and imprisoned Louis, whose saintly conduct while in prison shamed his captors. Released, and after another miserable failure in Palestine, he returned to France broken in health but still fired with the desire to liberate the Holy Land. And so again, St. Louis led his men out from France, this time on the last crusade.