Culture of Opportunity: Obama’s Chicago
The People, Politics, and Ideas of Hyde Park
by Rebecca Janowitz
Please join with 57th Street Books in celebrating the publication of Rebecca Janowitz’s Culture of Opportunity with a book reading and signing at the University of Chicago’s Quadrangle Club.
About Culture of Opportunity:
Rebecca Janowitz’s portrait of Hyde Park - the Chicago South Side neighborhood long noted for its progressive politics - offers an expert, insider’s social and political perspective on this intriguing community that in many ways nurtured Barack Obama’s political career and made possible his run for the presidency. Sixty years ago - due to a major community grassroots organizing effort, followed by a publicly funded urban renewal program - the Hyde Park-Kenwood area of Chicago emerged as a diverse, politically confident community in a key lakefront location within a city noted for its segregated neighborhoods, cultivating a rich and congenial cultural tradition.
Where & When
Quadrangle Club
1155 E. 57th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Wednesday, May 19th
5.00p
