This isn't so much a history of Pittsburgh as it is a biography. Sometimes we're so afraid of what others think, we're afraid to declare who we are. This city is not midwestern. It's not East Coast. It's just Pittsburgh, and there's no place like it. That's both its blessing and its curse.
Language
English
Pages
152
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Carnegie Mellon University Press
Release
September 04, 2009
ISBN
088748509X
ISBN 13
9780887485091
The Paris of Appalachia: Pittsburgh in the Twenty-First Century
This isn't so much a history of Pittsburgh as it is a biography. Sometimes we're so afraid of what others think, we're afraid to declare who we are. This city is not midwestern. It's not East Coast. It's just Pittsburgh, and there's no place like it. That's both its blessing and its curse.