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The Chicagoan on Eight Forty-Eight

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Author Neil Harris, joined Eight Forty-Eight host Richard Steele on this morning’s program to discuss how he stumbled upon several issues of the Chicagoan deep in the stacks at the University of Chicago’s Regenstein Library and his resurrection of the forgotten 1920’s publication in his new coffee table book, The Chicagoan: A Lost Magazine of the Jazz Age.
Listen in on the conversation on the website for Chicago Public Radio’s Eight Forty-Eight.
Also read an interview with the author, see a gallery of covers and illustrations from the magazine and sample pages in PDF (7mb) from the book.