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Stadt zufrieden, Stadt unzufrieden: Eine Geschichte des modernen Harrisburg

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Book Title
City Contented, City Discontented
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9780983957102
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Midtown Scholar Press
ISBN-10
098395710X
ISBN-13
9780983957102
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424 Pages
Publication Name
City Contented, City Discontented : a History of Modern Harrisburg
Language
English
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United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), United States / General
Publication Year
2012
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Textbook
Author
Paul Beers
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History
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Trade Paperback

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1.2 in
Item Weight
23.2 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

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Scholarly & Professional
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&"As a reporter-at-large, Paul Beers saw the city, cared that he saw it, and documented what was there to see. Now his years of observational columns are bound together for the first time in a beautiful new book, joined with rare and remarkable historical photographs. In a cityscape consumed by a troubled present, the new Midtown Scholar publishing venture brings forth words and works that explicate Harrisburg's past, while delivering jobs and hope for her living future. These collected columns by Paul Beers are testament to both the colossal importance of strong daily newspapers and the amazingly dedicated reporters and good editors who make them.&" &-Jackson Taylor, author of The Blue Orchard, "As a reporter-at-large, Paul Beers saw the city, cared that he saw it, and documented what was there to see. Now his years of observational columns are bound together for the first time in a beautiful new book, joined with rare and remarkable historical photographs. In a cityscape consumed by a troubled present, the new Midtown Scholar publishing venture brings forth words and works that explicate Harrisburg's past, while delivering jobs and hope for her living future. These collected columns by Paul Beers are testament to both the colossal importance of strong daily newspapers and the amazingly dedicated reporters and good editors who make them." --Jackson Taylor,author of The Blue Orchard, "As a reporter-at-large, Paul Beers saw the city, cared that he saw it, and documented what was there to see. Now his years of observational columns are bound together for the first time in a beautiful new book, joined with rare and remarkable historical photographs. In a cityscape consumed by a troubled present, the new Midtown Scholar publishing venture brings forth words and works that explicate Harrisburg's past, while delivering jobs and hope for her living future. These collected columns by Paul Beers are testament to both the colossal importance of strong daily newspapers and the amazingly dedicated reporters and good editors who make them." -Jackson Taylor, author of The Blue Orchard, "As a reporter-at-large, Paul Beers saw the city, cared that he saw it, and documented what was there to see. Now his years of observational columns are bound together for the first time in a beautiful new book, joined with rare and remarkable historical photographs. In a cityscape consumed by a troubled present, the new Midtown Scholar publishing venture brings forth words and works that explicate Harrisburg's past, while delivering jobs and hope for her living future. These collected columns by Paul Beers are testament to both the colossal importance of strong daily newspapers and the amazingly dedicated reporters and good editors who make them." --Jackson Taylor, author of The Blue Orchard
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Table Of Content
Contents FOREWORD: Paul Beers, Historian at Large 1. Old Home Week and Renaissance I 2. City Beautiful 3. The Handsomest Building He Ever Saw 4. An Edifice of Sovereignty 5. The Biggest Centralized State Government in America 6. Itinerant Governors 7. Mira Lloyd Dock and the "Harrisburg Idea" 8. Vance McCormick and the Municipal League 9. The Most Spirited Election in Harrisburg History 10. Mayor McCormick and the Awakening of Harrisburg 11. The Harrisburg Improvement Plan 12. An Acre per 80 13. A Made-Over Town 14. A Different Sort of Selflessness 15. Becoming Modern 16. The Merchant Princess and the Real Estate King 17. Club Life 18. A Library, Bookstores, and a New Hospital 19. The First Suburbia 20. A Confederacy of Territories 21. Shipoke, Once the Puddlers'' Hovel 22. Maris Harvey Taylor and Other Shipokers 23. Black Neighborhoods 24. The Hidden History of Sibletown 25. J. Horace McFarland and Bellevue Park 26. Front Street, The Best Address 27. Losing Front Street 28. Front Street Patricians 29. Unwashed Harrisburg 30. Power, Steel, and Dreams 31. The Pennsy and the Masterpiece 32. Railroad Lifestyle 33. Factory Town 34. From Sizzling to Cold 35. The Trolley Era 36. The Finest Public School System in Pennsylvania 37. The Zenith of Local Education 38. Learning Spree 39. An Obsession for Sports 40. Thorpe, Beck, and Kitzmiller Score 41. Tech, Champion of America 42. The Diamond at Island Park 43. Show-Biz Crossroads 44. The Grand Opera House 45. Theaters in a Tough Town 46. The Local Press 47. The Capitol Press Corps 48. The Patriot and The Telegraph 49. The Best Drama in Town 50. Newspaper Rivalry 51. The Evening News 52. Newspaper Men and Women 53. The Newhouse Newspaper 54. Wallower''s Penn Harris 55. Penn Harris People 56. Everybody''s Gathering Place 57. Jimmy Deliberty at the Esquire Bar 58. A City''s Heart 59. From Patriarch to Orphan 60. "The Narrow Iron Shell of Life" 61. The First Modern Riot, 1969 62. William Lynch Murray and the Greater Harrisburg Movement 63. Harristown Proclaimed 64. Renaissance II? 65. The State in the City 66. Strawberry Square 67. Everybody''s Out of Town 68. Shutting Up Shops in the 70''s 69. The Restaurant Boom 70. The Fourth Largest City in Pennsylvania 71. Gilded Provinces 72. East Shore, West Shore 73. The Malling of Harrisburg 74. Colonizing and Carpetbagging 75. One of the World''s Better-Known Chunks of Real Estate 76. "We Survived TMI" 77. 32.8 Feet, 650 Billion Gallons 78. Out of the Muck and the Mire 79. The Fanciest Trash Collection 80. Debt Crunch 81. The Infernal Furnace 82. Racial Separatism 83. Life for Harrisburg Blacks 84. Plantation Politics and Nibs Franklin 85. Dismantling Tokenism 86. The World of the Moose Lodge 87. A New Separatism 88. The Urban School Problem 89. The City''s Largest Tax Collector 90. "Black" and "City" 91. The West Shore Cosmetological Crisis of 1970 92. Friendless Harrisburg 93. Racial Education 94. Guerilla Theater 95. Republican Hegemony 96. Ageless Harve Taylor 97. Post-Taylorism 98. Nolan Ziegler, Rare Mayor 99. The Noble and Lofty Ideal of HACC 100. Not Dead Yet 101. Gallant Forces 102. Big Al Straub 103. The Swensons 104. The Closest Election in City History 105. Chicken Corn Soup Politics 106. One Good Term Deserves Another 107. Going Crazy Everywhere 108. A Hotbed of Social Rest 109. No Higher Office 110. Swenson''s Sincere Relief 111. Spoils Inherit the Victor 112. Skidding on the Ice 113. Unsavory Days 114. A New Generation 115. Revealing Glimpses 116. Such a Whirlwind 117. Reed''s Vision 118. The Best Local Feud 119. The Hotel Situation 120. They Conquer Who Believe They Can INDEX
Synopsis
In City Contented, City Discontented: A History of Modern Harrisburg, award-winning journalist Paul Beers (1931-2011) reveals how contemporary Harrisburg came to be what it is. In a masterful series of essays, Beers charts the capital's development from a City Beautiful, with its celebrated public spaces and premier educational institutions, through the fractures of race riots and the catastrophic challenges of flood and near-nuclear meltdown. Beers employs the well-honed skills of a veteran reporter to craft fascinating character sketches of prominent leaders and humble citizens alike, intertwining their dramatic personal stories with a compelling survey of the region's society, politics, and culture in the twentieth century., In City Contented, City Discontented: A History of Modern Harrisburg , award-winning journalist Paul Beers (1931-2011) reveals how contemporary Harrisburg came to be what it is. In a masterful series of essays, Beers charts the capital's development from a City Beautiful, with its celebrated public spaces and premier educational institutions, through the fractures of race riots and the catastrophic challenges of flood and near-nuclear meltdown. Beers employs the well-honed skills of a veteran reporter to craft fascinating character sketches of prominent leaders and humble citizens alike, intertwining their dramatic personal stories with a compelling survey of the region's society, politics, and culture in the twentieth century., Beers reveals how contemporary Harrisburg came to be by employing the well-honed skills of a veteran reporter to craft fascinating character sketches of prominent leaders and humble citizens alike, intertwining their dramatic personal stories with a compelling survey of the region's society, politics, and culture in the twentieth century.

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