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Chicago: The Second City
By A.J. Liebling, drawings by Steinberg
University of Nebraska Press, 143 pages, $15.95
Alex Kotlowitz’s “Never a City So Real” has a different style and tone from A.J. Liebling’s 1952 tongue-in-cheek book about Chicago, but they belong on the same elevated bookshelf of Chicago classics. The series in The New Yorker that this book is based on elicited a slew of protests from Chicagoans, which Liebling answers in this witty volume.