Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh: The Story of an American City follows Pittsburgh from its frontier beginnings through its evolution into the most heavily industrialized city in the world, to the city's renewal of itself as "America's Most Livable City." This beautiful volume though, is much more than the story of a single city; it is the history of the United States.

This book is based on years of research and includes contributions by such noted American historians as Henry Steele Commager and Oscar Handlin. More than 1100 pictures recreate the city's dramatic 200+year history. Featured are photographs by W. Eugene Smith, Margaret Bourke-White, Norman W. Schumm, Lorant himself and others. A chronology of events from 1717 offers historical snapshots in the day to day life of the archetypical American city.

Chapter 1 Forts in the Wilderness
Chapter 2 Gateway to the West
Chapter 3 The City Grows
Chapter 4 The Civil War and its Aftermath
Chapter 5 The Hearth pof the Nation
Chapter 6 Problems of Labor
Chapter 7 The Entrepreneurs
Chapter 8 The Muckracking Era
Chapter 9 Between Two Wars
Chapter 10 Rebirth
Chapter 11 Levelling Off
Chapter 12 The City of Champions
Chapter 13 Renaissance II
Chapter 14 The Great Transformation in the Eighties
15 The Best is Yet to Come