Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
27 Feb 2017 16:30
Having lived here for 11 years now, and presuming that I'll live here a great deal longer, I might as well take an interest in it, in my usual way.
- Recommended, general non-fiction:
- Edward K. Muller (ed.), An Uncommon Passage: Traveling through History on the Great Allegheny Passage Trail
- David Nasaw, Andrew Carnegie
- Ethel Spencer, The Spencers of Amberson Avenue: A Turn-of-the-Century Memoir
- Franklin Toker
- Pittsburgh: An Urban Portrait [1986]
- Pittsburgh: A New Portrait [2009]
- James D. Van Trump, Life and Architecture in Pittsburgh
- Recommended, pretty pictures of industrial ruins:
- Chuck Beard, Abandoned Pittsburgh
- Mark Perrott, liza: Remembering a Pittsburgh Steel Mill
- Recommended, fiction that gives a feel for the city:
- Kathleen George
- Kathleen George (ed.), Pittsburgh Noir
- James Tucker
- To read (not further sub-divided):
- Leland D. Baldwin, Pittsburgh: The Story of a City, 1750--1865
- John P. Hoerr, And the Wolf Finally Came: The Decline of the American Steel Industry
- Harold C. Livesay, Andrew Carnegie and the Rise of Big Business
- Brian O'Neill, The Paris of Appalachia: Pittsburgh in the Twenty-first Century
- W. Eugene Smith, Dream Street: W. Eugene Smith's Pittsburgh Project
