Florenz Ziegfeld and the Creation of a Cosmopolitan Chicago

Susan E. Hirsch is Professor Emerita of History at Loyola University Chicago. She is the author of After the Strike: A Century of Labor Struggle at Pullman (2003); Roots of the American Working Class: The Industrialization of Crafts in Newark, 1800–1860 (1978); and, with Robert Goler, A City Comes of Age: Chicago in the 1890s (1990). She is coeditor, with Lewis Erenberg, of The War in American Culture: Society and Consciousness during World War II (1996). Currently she is writing a history of ethnic and race relations in Chicago between 1890 and 1930.