Smith applied the “ Test” to his latest book, Chicago’s Great Fire: The Destruction and Resurrection of an Iconic American City, and reported the following: The Test would give the reader a good if not entirely complete sense of Chicago’s Great Fire. His books include Chicago and the American Literary Imagination, 1880-1920 Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief: The Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullman The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City and City Water, City Life: Water and the Infrastructure of Ideas in Urbanizing Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago.
Carl Smith is Franklyn Bliss Snyder Professor of English and American Studies and Professor of History, Emeritus, at Northwestern University.
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