{"product_id":"the-soul-of-pittsburgh-essays-on-life-community-and-history-paperback","title":"The Soul of Pittsburgh: Essays on Life, Community and History - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEd Simon\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRon Donoughe\u003c\/b\u003e (Other)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Europe stretches to the Alleghenies, America lies beyond.\" - Ralph Waldo Emerson\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"They are my people and this is my town and it does my heart good just to be here.\" - Art Rooney Sr. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePittsburgh contains multitudes. The city bestows a character of contradiction, love of place and strength of community on anyone lucky to be born and raised there. A town whose rivers were once lined with belching steel mills but also hosted the world's first major modern art exhibition is not easily defined. From the decline of the steel industry and the exodus of a vast diaspora of Pittsburghers to its reinvention as a trendy mid-sized metropolis, the ethos of the Steel City remains ever-changing. Across thirteen interconnected essays, author Ed Simon examines the city's identity in all of its minutia--U.S. Steel and the U.S. Steelworkers; dive bars and churches; the black and gold and the Black and white; hills, bridges and inclines; and geography as destiny.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEd Simon is the editor of \u003cem\u003eBelt Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e and an emeritus staff writer for \u003cem\u003eThe Millions\u003c\/em\u003e. He holds a PhD in English from Lehigh University and has taught writing at several institutions of higher education, most recently at Carnegie Mellon University. Simon's work has appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eParis Review Daily\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAeon\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, among others. He is the author of several books, and his most recent titles include \u003cem\u003eRelic\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePandemonium: A Visual History of Demonology\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eElysium: A Visual History of Angelology from Abrams\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003eHeaven, Hell and Paradise Lost \u003c\/em\u003efrom Ig Publishing. In the summer of 2024, Melville House will release \u003cem\u003eDevil's Contract: The History of the Faustian Bargain\u003c\/em\u003e. He has written about his hometown before in \u003cem\u003eAn Alternative History of Pittsburgh.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 13, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53596002484531,"sku":"9781467157315","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/XSQ2SK0P3Y9781467157315.webp?v=1782943658","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/the-soul-of-pittsburgh-essays-on-life-community-and-history-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}