Tuttle, William M. : University of Kansas Main Campus
William M. Tuttle, a professor of history and American studies at the University of Kansas, is the author of
"Daddy's Gone to War": The Second World War in the Lives of America's Children.
Summary
"This book has more lives than a cat because its feet are firmly planted on the bedrock issues of race
and class, its analysis goes to the quick of urban-industrial life in the early twentieth century, and its vivid
narrative captures the tumultuous riot without ever losing scholarly balance. A quarter century after it was first
published, it has still not been excelled." -- Alan Dawley, author of Struggles for Justice: Social Responsibility
and the Liberal State
"One cannot fully understand the Chicago riot of 1919 or, indeed, the post-World War I racial strife without
reading this important work." -- John Hope Franklin, coeditor, Black Leaders of the Twentieth Century
From published reviews:
"Tuttle's catalogue of the causes of racial conflict in Chicago . . . sounds depressingly up-to-date."
-- Eric Foner, The New York Times Book Review
"Vividly written. . . with surprising appeal for the lay reader."
