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Authors: Stefan Lorant, Oscar Handlin (With), Henry Steele Commager
ISBN-13: 9780967410302, ISBN-10: 0967410304
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Esselmont Books, LLC
Date Published: September 1999
Edition: ENL

This book is based on years of research and includes contributions by such noted American historians as Henry Steele Commager and Oscar Handlin.

	Foreword	6
	Pittsburgh at 2000	8
Chapter 1	Forts in the Wilderness	9
Chapter 2	Gateway to the West	47
Chapter 3	The City Grows	81
Chapter 4	The Civil War and its Aftermath	129
Chapter 5	The Hearth of the Nation	177
Chapter 6	Problems of Labor	209
Chapter 7	The Entrepreneurs	219
Chapter 8	The Muckracking Era	261
Chapter 9	Between Two Wars	321
Chapter 10	Rebirth	373
Chapter 11	Levelling Off	449
Chapter 12	The City of Champions	537
Chapter 13	Renaissance II	533
Chapter 14	The Great Transformation in the Eighties	593
Chapter 15	The Best Is Yet to Come	641
	Chronology of Events from 1717 Till 1999	673
	Bibliography	759
	Index of Photographers	766
	Index	766