Annual planning board, please help me give a special thank you to all the sponsors. Before we begin. And the camera flashes. I will introduce today, in conversation proud smith with rick cogan. And with chicago great fire. And and please join me, please welcome rick hogan. You are good to come out on a hot day like this. A big part of this book, the paperback edition was just out and in the current of that addition, simply put, the best book ever written about my father who i admired tremendously wrote a book about the fire and i still say this. My brother is here. Where we have run out of things, you knew my dad. I came to chicago, just finished graduate school in yale in newhaven connecticut. What i was most interested in was history and culture in the second half of the nineteenth century. And weve got this job on northwestern. I was teaching a heavy load but in the spring, i went to teach a course on chicago literature and i dont remember the exact way it happened and somehow befor
And the camera flashes. I will introduce today, in conversation proud smith with rick cogan. And with chicago great fire. And and please join me, please welcome rick hogan. You are good to come out on a hot day like this. A big part of this book, the paperback edition was just out and in the current of that addition, simply put, the best book ever written about my father who i admired tremendously wrote a book about the fire and i still say this. My brother is here. Where we have run out of things, you knew my dad. I came to chicago, just finished graduate school in yale in newhaven connecticut. What i was most interested in was history and culture in the second half of the nineteenth century. And weve got this job on northwestern. I was teaching a heavy load but in the spring, i went to teach a course on chicago literature and i dont remember the exact way it happened and somehow before the internet and emails, there he is. Your book is better. Sitting upstairs at the Chicago Press cl
You can watch this interview in its entirety along with other oral histories, cspan. Org history. Welcome to the 30 sixth annual planning board, please help me give a special thank you to all the sponsors. Before we begin. And the camera flashes. I will introduce today, in conversation proud smith with rick cogan. And with chicago great fire. And and please join me, please welcome rick hogan. You are good to come out on a hot day like this. A big part of this book, the paperback edition was just out and in the current of that addition, simply put, the best book ever written about my father who i admired tremendously wrote a book about the fire and i still say this. My brother is here. Where we have run out of things, you knew my dad. I came to chicago, just finished graduate school in yale in newhaven connecticut. What i was most interested in was history and culture in the second half of the nineteenth century. And weve got this job on northwestern. I was teaching a heavy load but in
Rick kogan in. Carl smith is the author of chicagos great fire. The destruction and resurgence of an iconic american city. Please welcome me. Please join me in welcoming carl smith and rick kogan. You are good people to come out on a hot day like this. And partake of literature. This booki am now claiming to be a big part of this book because the paperback addition is just out and on the top of that addition is something that i wrote that says, simply put, the best book ever written about the fire. My father, who i admire tremendously wrote to fire a bit about the fire. And i still say this. And my brother is here. Carl, it is a pleasure to meet you. I met you at the socalled writers spot over here where they have run out of things to drink and eat. You knew my dad. Yes, i did. I came to chicago in 1972. From . I had just finished graduate school at yale in new haven, connecticut. And i grew up in the east and went to college and graduate school in the east. But what i was most interes
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