Chicago Review Press: 838 books
Barrel-Aged Stout and Selling Out
Goose Island, Anheuser-Busch, and How Craft Beer Became Big Business
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Goose Island opened as a family-owned Chicago brewpub in the late 1980s, and it soon became one of the most inventive breweries in the world. In the golden age of light, bland and cheap beers, John Hall and his son Greg brought European flavors to America. With distribution in two dozen states, two...
Brotherhood of Corruption
A Cop Breaks the Silence on Police Abuse, Brutality, and Racial Profiling
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2004
A former Chicago cop exposes shocking truths about the abuses of power within the city’s police department in this memoir of violence, drugs, and men with badges. Juarez becomes a police officer because he wants to make a difference in gang-infested neighborhoods; but, as this book reveals, he ends...
County
Life, Death and Politics at Chicago's Public Hospital
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
The amazing tale of County” is the story of one of America’s oldest and most unusual urban hospitals. From its inception as a poor house” dispensing free medical care to indigents, Chicago’s Cook County Hospital has been renowned as a teaching hospital and the healthcare provider of last...
Freedom Song
Young Voices and the Struggle for Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Blending memorable music with a historical context, this exploration provides a fresh perspective on the civil rights movement by showing how certain songs served as its voice. From the Chicago Children’s Choir to the SNCC Freedom Singers, this resource examines the churches and groups that worked...
The Whale Chaser
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
The Whale Chaser is the story of Vince Sansone, the eldest child and only son in a large Italian American family, who comes of age in 1960s Chicago. A constant disappointment to his embittered father - a fishmonger who shows his displeasure with his fists - Vince finds solace by falling in love....
Frank Lloyd Wright for Kids
His Life and Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
An engaging, kid-friendly exploration of America’s leading architect and his work
This revised and updated edition of a longstanding classic, Frank Lloyd Wright for Kids, details the life, times, and work of the celebrated architect. Through simple, kid-friendly prose and anecdotes,...
The Art of Inventing Hope
Intimate Conversations with Elie Wiesel
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
The Art of Inventing Hope offers an unprecedented, in-depth conversation between the world's most revered Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel, and a son of survivors, Howard Reich. During the last four years of Wiesel's life, he met frequently with Reich in New York, Chicago and Florida—and spoke often...
Uncollecting Cheever
The Family of John Cheever vs. Academy Chicago Publishers
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
The story of how little Academy Chicago Publishers (co-owned by the author and her husband, Jordan Miller) tried to publish the late John Cheever's uncollected short stories, and was blocked from doing so by Cheever's family, is now a familiar part of publishing lore (and law).
No Regrets
The Life of Edith Piaf
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Sympathetic . . . captivating . . . highly effective.” -Graham Robb, New York Review of Books Concise and gracefully written. . . . Burke surveys all [Piaf’s] mayhem with thoughtfulness and respect.” -James Gavin, New York Times Book Review The iconic French singer comes to life in...
Capsized!
The Forgotten Story of the SS Eastland Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
On July 24, 1915, the SS Eastland, filled to capacity with 2,500 aboard, capsized in the Chicago River while still moored to the pier. The disaster took more passenger lives than the Titanic and stands today as the greatest loss of life on the Great Lakes. Capsized! details the events leading...
Debunked!
Conspiracy Theories, Urban Legends, and Evil Plots of the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
As he did in Urban Legends and Hollywood Urban Legends, and as he has done in dozens of columns for the Chicago Sun-Times over the last decade and a half, Richard Roeper lays out the basics of the conspiracy theory, quotes some of the true believers-and then tears the theory apart with his bare hands....
Traveling Soul
The Life of Curtis Mayfield
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Curtis Mayfield was one of the seminal vocalists and most talented guitarists of his era, and his music played a vital role in the civil rights movement: "People Get Ready" was the black anthem of the time. In Traveling Soul, Todd Mayfield tells his famously private father's story in riveting...
by Reginald Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2010
With hands-on advice and instruction from an experienced actor and theater director, this pragmatic, authoritative guide to starting a theater company imparts essential backstage know-how for would-be playhouse practitioners on everything from fundraising and finding a space to selecting plays and...
The Camper Book
A Celebration of a Moveable American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
The Camper Book will captivate all those who dream of waving good-bye to the rat race from the window of their own moveable home, be it a camper, RV, travel trailer, camper van, or tiny camper. Not just for placid retirees anymore, camper culture has sprung up among simplicity-seeking millennials,...