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The soul of Pittsburgh : essays on life, community and history / Ed Simon

Author
Simon, Ed (Writer)
Published
Charleston, SC : The History Press, 2024.
Physical Description
191 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

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Contents
Introduction: To write a history of Pittsburgh is to write a history of America -- Theory and practice of the yinzer -- Ninety neighborhoods -- Epistle to the Steelers Nation -- Bridges, inclines and paper streets -- Hollywood on the Mon -- Black and gold in black and white -- The Pittsburgh School -- Allegheny Gothic -- Fries on everything -- Keep Pittsburgh weird -- The national monument to labor solidarity -- Hell with the lid off -- Only Pittsburgh is more than Pittsburgh.
Summary
"Pittsburgh contains multitudes. The city bestows a character of contradiction, love of place and strength of community on anyone lucky to be born and raised there. A town whose rivers were once lined with belching steel mills but also hosted the world's first major art exhibition is not easily defined. From the decline of the steel industry and the exodus of a vast diaspora of Pittsburghers to its reinvention as a trendy midsized metropolis, the ethos of the Steel City remains everchanging. Across thirteen interconnected essays, author Ed Simon examines the city's identity in all of its minutia--U.S. Steel and the U.S. Steelworkers; dive bars and churches; the black and gold and the Black and white; hills, bridges and inclines; and geography as destiny"--Page 4 of cover.
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9781467157315 (paperback)
1467157317 (paperback)
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Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries)
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