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Remembering Pittsburgh: An "Eyewitness" History of the Steel City
The doomed Whiskey Rebellion, the Great Fire that destroyed a third of the city in 1845 and Lincoln's speech urging residents to shun talk of secession--all have made the pages of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and its predecessors. Since 1786, the paper has covered local events, and reporter Len Barcousky is a part of this long tradition. This collection of his "Eyewitness" columns draws on next-day stories to tell the history of the city, from President Coolidge's almost-silent visit in 1927 to a report on the first woman hanged in Allegheny County. Join Barcousky as he vividly recounts the compelling history of the Steel City.
- GenresNonfiction
160 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 16, 2010
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April 11, 2021
Remembering Pittsburgh
June 1, 2015
Review title: Forgettable Pittsburgh
Remembering Pittsburgh is a modern collection of columns recalling events from Pittsburgh as culled from the pages of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (which merits a story as the first newspaper-1786-west of the Alleghenies). While most of the stories are interesting, the collection is haphazard. No stories cover the major college or professional sports teams, for example, And because the stories were bound by the rigid constraints of newspaper column inches, the background or context of the events within the bigger historical picture is sometimes sketchy. A book that expanded on the stories to provide the context might have been more interesting.
Remembering Pittsburgh is a modern collection of columns recalling events from Pittsburgh as culled from the pages of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (which merits a story as the first newspaper-1786-west of the Alleghenies). While most of the stories are interesting, the collection is haphazard. No stories cover the major college or professional sports teams, for example, And because the stories were bound by the rigid constraints of newspaper column inches, the background or context of the events within the bigger historical picture is sometimes sketchy. A book that expanded on the stories to provide the context might have been more interesting.
January 7, 2016
This was my book club gift exchange present from Susan. I enjoyed this book of stories researched from newspaper archives. Some of the stories were new to me, some I had heard before and some I had forgotten. An easy, enjoyable read.
November 12, 2013
Meh. I was hoping to find a better history of the city, on the other hand, maybe this is as interesting as Pittsburgh's history gets.
January 14, 2015
Considering the wealth of interesting source material, this book was really disappointing
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