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Across the first half of this century, Wisconsin dairy farmer Alex Krueger turned the camera's lens on his farm, his children, the rural environs, and the networks of kin that framed all their lives. Later, other members of the Krueger clan took up the camera. Their photographs and family stories comprise a unique record not only of who the Kruegers were but also of how they sought to be remembered. As Pomeranian immigrants in the mid-nineteenth century, the Kruegers struggled to get by while accumulating the capital to purchase a substantial farm. By the turn of the century they had achieved a life of middle-class comfort in the midst of the rigorous demands of dairy farming. Over the generations, they reshaped customs and language, traditions and aspirations to meet the needs of the present. When necessary, they broke with the past by changing churches and, in order to sustain the family enterprise, by embracing scientific farming, government extension programs, marketing coops, and political activism. The trappings of success, as well as the tensions and the human cost of choices made and opportunities lost, are manifest in these images of farm, family, and landscape. The Kruegers were unusual in that they remained in place, on the land, for more than a century, compiling this rich and varied record of one family's evolution.
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Esteban Mejia
reviewed Six Generations Here: A Farm Family Remembers on June 29, 2013
Six Generations Here
This is the best one-volume history of Chicago I'm aware of. Pacyga is a professional historian but he is writing for the layman here; he admits in his preface that this is not a complete history but rather an attempt "[to highlight] those people, places, events and relationships that capture the essence of the individual." That's why he called it a biography.
Whatever it is, it's consistently readable and absorbing. The story of Chicago is in some respects astounding, as it grew in thirty years from a muddy village in a swamp to a city of a hundred thousand that hosted the Republican convention that nominated Abraham Lincoln. Pacyga recounts how the railroads and the Illinois and Michigan Canal made Chicago the transportation hub of the rapidly expanding country, assuring its importance. The fire in 1871 cleared the slate for a makeover that produced the outlines of the modern city, and by the end of the 19th century Chicago was immense: chaotic and corrupt, but also the industrial and financial capital of the American heartland.
Pacyga devotes a great deal of attention to the ferocious labor struggles that resulted, from the Haymarket riot to the Pullman strike. Chicago was for a time the epicenter of America's class struggle. With the Great Migration came racial strife as well, with consequences enduring up to the present day. The Prohibition gangster wars get their due, as do the Depression, the Second World War, industrial decline, suburbanization and the changes overseen (or resisted) by the two Daleys.
Pacyga covers it all, with a historian's insight and a native son's affection. This is an excellent comprehensive look at the city's history for the general reader.
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