Pittsburgh Books

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As part of the popular Then and Now Series, Pittsburgh is celebrated with archival photographs shown alongside specially commissioned contemporary images of the same scene. We find that the evolution of Pittsburgh over the last century has produced a compact urban landscape of older buildings blended with more recent architectural development. Downtown, the office blocks are still punctuated by traces of Pittsburgh's industrial heritage-the so-called "sliver" warehouses-mingling with the conveniences of modern city life. Over 100 photographs are featured in this amazing view of a fascinating city.

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President Bush vowing to get the man responsible for Hurricane Katrina. Dick Cheney surviving an office fire and declaring that only silver bullets can kill him. Osama bin Laden arguing with Ayman Al-Zawahiri about who'll clean their cave. Hillary Clinton hoarding castration devices. Barack Obama healing the crack on the Liberty Bell. Brett Favre pulling up to Packers' training camp in the Popemobile. The Local Man who only feels alive when he wears his collar bomb.

They're all here, with more than 250 hilarious others, reprinted in all their irreverent glory.

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The New York Times called it 'a giant of a book,' and Publisher's Weekly summarized: 'It certainly is one of the most fascinatingly detailed picture histories yet attempted of any city anywhere.  For readability, thoroughness, graphic quality and broad scope, this is a model history of an American city.'

And a letter in the Pittsburgh Press ended with: 'Beg, borrow, or buy this book - it is worth any price.'

Stefan Lorant did the planning and much of the layout for this millennium edition.  As noted by biographer Michael Hallett, 'This new and enlarged fifth edition - Lorant's monumental opus - has been completed since his death and is a celebration of both his life and that of a great American City.

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"More than any other single asset, the Nationality Rooms epitomize the University of Pittsburgh character by melding culture, beauty, and learning. In their diversity, the rooms preserve and honor our ethnic identities. Collectively, they symbolize our national unity." -Wesley W. Posvar

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Fallingwater Rising is the biography of the most famous American house of the twentieth century--Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater, culled from hundreds of interviews, letters, and contemporary references by an internationally recognized specialist in the history of architecture.

When he got the commission to design the house, in 1934, Wright was nearing 70. He was living in professional isolation, his early fame long gone. Like so many Depression-era Americans, he had no new work in sight. Into his orbit stepped Edgar Kaufmann, a Pittsburgh department-store mogul and philanthropist with the burning ambition to build a world-famous work of architecture.

It was an unlikely collaboration: the Jewish merchant who had no lasting concern for modern architecture and the brilliant modernist who was paranoid about Jews--among many fictive enemies. But the two men produced an extraordinary building of lasting architectural significance that brought international fame to them both, and gained Wright the status of the greatest architect of the twentieth century.

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