Book About Slaughterhouses In Chicago
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Sinclair rejected the legislation, which he considered an unjustified boon to large meatpackers. The government (and taxpayers) would bear the costs of inspection, estimated at $30,000,000 annually.[25][26] He complained about the public's misunderstanding of the point of his book in Cosmopolitan Magazine in October 1906 by saying, "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach."[27]
Slaughterhouse-five, Or, The Children's Crusade is about a man who (like Vonnegut) participated in the fire-bombing of Dresden in World War II. Since then, he's been put in an alien zoo and now experiences his story in a chronology that's all out of order. The novel combined the science fiction elements I loved as a kid with the smarts of books I was required to read for school, along with a subversive sense of humor that, up to that point in my life, I'd never encountered in fiction.
The America Daley's grandparents immigrated to rescued them from famine, but it was far from welcoming. The flood of Irish arriving in the nation's large cities produced a feverish outpouring of anti-Catholic sentiment. Protestant ministers preached about the threat posed by a Catholic Church they referred to by epithets like "The Scarlet Lady of Babylon" and "The Whore of Rome." And the American reading public devoured incendiary anti-Catholic books like the infamous novel Artful Disclosures, an "exposé" of convent life in which a nun describes forced sexual relations with priests, frequent orgies, and the murder of nuns who refused to submit.
After graduating from De La Salle in 1919, Daley took a job with Dolan, Ludeman, and Company, a stockyards commission house. Daley once said that as children he and his friends were always drawn to the slaughterhouses, "being city kids fascinated with farm animals." Daley woke at 4:00 a.m. each day to walk from his parents' house to the yards. In the mornings, he moved cattle off trucks and weighed them. In the afternoons, he put his De La Salle skills to work in the firm's offices, writing letters, taking dictation, and handling the books. Later in his career, Daley would regale political with tales of his days as a stockyards "cowboy." He presented himself as something of a South Side John Wayne, probably overstating the amount of derring-do his job required, and certainly omitting the grim brutality of the work.
Chicago has been called the "slaughterhouse of the world" in describing the urban area and its main industry. Author Sinclair Lewis wrote a novel about Chicago first published in 1906, called The Jungle.
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Some readers of Hill's book may be frustrated. The narrative can be dry, and the different sections could be better integrated. This is not a thesis-driven or particularly analytical book. Still, Hill and the other authors have located interesting primary sources and the book as a whole represents a significant research accomplishment. Environmental historians and historians of Chicago will find many facts and stories about the river that are fascinating and new, but also ripe for further interpretation.
Sound like a really interesting book. Did you finish it? Did you happen to come across the piece in the NYT discussing the problem with Chicago and flooding? Really fascinating reporting. -river-lake-michigan.htmlBTW, I am enjoying the Detroit books, as an old-time Detroiter. I was wanting to quibble about your description of Hastings St being at the end of Grand Circus Park. I then recalled that GCP nearly goes all the way the the Chrysler Freeway, which was the project that destroyed Hastings St. I went to Cass Tech many decades ago so I have some familiarity with the entire setting of the first two books. We also belonged to Temple Beth El when it was still down at Woodward and Gladstone. I had never thought of the houses on Gladstone as being upper middle-class. Interesting mind reset. At any rate, I've been searching for your recent output, but it seems you've stopped at four (or five) published books. I hope you're working on other novels. Your writing is refreshing.
Slaughterhouse-Five is a literary classic about a man who becomes "unstuck in time" and travels between different points in his life. The blending of grim reality with science fiction elevates the book above a single anti-war genre. I was so intrigued by the idea of reliving any moment of your life as non-linear events. Everything always has existed and always will. 2b1af7f3a8