Pig and the Skyscraper

«Chicago, America's megalopolis-as-metaphor, has found its leftward de Toqueville in Marco d'Eramo. His book is as rare as an Indian Head penny and as hard as truth. It is a book that Algren, Dreiser, Altgeld and Darrow would have acclaimed as 'on the button'." -- Studs Terkel "d'Eramo looks to Chicago both as a guide to what the future might be like for European and other cities, but also as a warning about what to avoid." - Chicago Tribune "Little in the urban scene escapes his attention, and his polemic is a fascinating and wide-ranging contribution to contemporary social thought." -- Choice "d'Eramo's demonstration of the transfiguring power of capital is compelling." - Guardian "This kaleidoscope of a book, with its ability to surprise at every turn of the page, to excite the reader with a fresh insight, a new way of seeing, is to be strongly recommended." - Frontline "d'Eramo's book examines different institutions that originated or flourished in Chicago ... rather than narrating a straigh»