Gary, the Most American of All American Cities.

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: "Built as It Is on Shifting Sand" -- Part 1 Gary, the Magic City: Creation Myths -- 1 "An Industrial Utopia": The Search for Industrial Order -- 2 "Making a City to Order": U.S. Steel and the Building of an Industrial Center -- Part 2 A City Built on Sand: Paradox and Meaning -- 3 "The Youngest City in the World": The Early Years of an Industrial Frontier -- 4 "The Gibraltar of the Steel Corporation": Narrative Meaning in a Steel Strike -- 5 "You're a Damned Liar-It's Utopia": Imagining Industrialism between the Wars -- Part 3 The Very Model of Modern Urban Decay: Decline and Fall -- 6 "Gary Is a Steel City, Young, Lusty, Brawling": Declension Narratives about Gary -- 7 "Epitaph for a Model City": Race, Deindustrialization, and Dystopia -- Conclusion: "In Search of America" -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.

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