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Provo Library
The
Lazarus
project / Aleksandar Hemon ; with photographs by Velibor Božović and from the Chicago Historical Society.
New York : Riverhead Books, 2008.
Subjects
Averbuch
,
Lazarus
,
d
.
1908
--
Fiction
.
Murder
--
Illinois
--
Chicago
--
Fiction
.
Immigrants
--
Illinois
--
Chicago
--
Fiction
.
Chicago (Ill.)
--
Social conditions
--
Fiction
.
ISBN:
9781594489884
1594489882
Description:
294 p. : ill ; 22 cm.
Summary:
On March 2,
1908
, nineteen-year-old
Lazarus
Averbuch
, a recent Jewish immigrant from Eastern Europe to Chicago, knocked on the front door of the house of George Shippy, the chief of Chicago police. When Shippy came to the door,
Averbuch
offered him what he said was an important letter. Instead of taking the letter, Shippy shot
Averbuch
twice, killing him. When Shippy released a statement casting
Averbuch
as a would-be anarchist assassin and agent of foreign political operatives, he all but set off a city and a country already simmering with ethnic and political tensions. Now, in the twenty-first century, a young writer in Chicago, Brik, also from Eastern Europe, becomes obsessed with
Lazarus
's story--what really happened, and why?--From publisher description.
Author/Performer(s):
Hemon, Aleksandar, 1964-
Božović, Velibor.
Chicago History Museum.
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GENERAL FICTION
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