In the summer of 1958, Edwin Slipek was sitting with his elbows on the window sill, his face pressed close to the glass. From a room high up in the William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh, he could see the teaming streets below and the belching smokestacks of steel mills in all directions. The sunrise was …
Charles Duff 2019 Bluecoat Press 279 pages Richmond, like its near neighbors Washington and Baltimore, is a city of row houses, at least in its inner neighborhoods. This urban building block sets Richmond apart from cities like Phoenix, which are almost entirely suburban, and places like Paris, which are composed mostly of multi-family dwellings. In …