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X-WR-CALDESC:True Story Book Club\n\nSmoketown: The Untold Story of the Oth
 er Great Black Renaissance by Mark Whitaker (448 p.)\n\nToday black Pittsb
 urgh is known as the setting for August Wilson’s famed plays about noble\,
  but doomed\, working-class citizens. But this community once had an impac
 t on American history that rivaled the far larger black worlds of Harlem a
 nd Chicago. It published the most widely read black newspaper in the count
 ry\, urging black voters to switch from the Republican to the Democratic P
 arty\, and then rallying black support for World War II. It fielded two of
  the greatest baseball teams of the Negro Leagues and introduced Jackie Ro
 binson to the Brooklyn Dodgers. Pittsburgh was the childhood home of jazz 
 pioneers Billy Strayhorn\, Billy Eckstine\, Earl Hines\, Mary Lou Williams
 \, and Erroll Garner\; Hall of Fame slugger Josh Gibson—and August Wilson 
 himself. Some of the most glittering figures of the era were changed forev
 er by the time they spent in the city\, from Joe Louis and Satchel Paige t
 o Duke Ellington and Lena Horne.\n\nMark Whitaker’s Smoketown is a “reward
 ing trip to a forgotten special place and time” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette).
  It depicts how ambitious Southern migrants were drawn to a steel-making c
 ity on a strategic river junction\; how they were shaped by its schools an
 d a spirit of commerce with roots in the Gilded Age\; and how their world 
 was eventually destroyed by industrial decline and urban renewal. “Smoketo
 wn brilliantly offers us a chance to see this other Black Renaissance and 
 spend time with the many luminaries who sparked it…It’s thanks to such a g
 ifted storyteller as Whitaker that this forgotten chapter of American hist
 ory can finally be told in all its vibrancy and glory” (The New York Times
  Book Review).\n
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DESCRIPTION:True Story Book Club\n\nSmoketown: The Untold Story of the Othe
 r Great Black Renaissance by Mark Whitaker (448 p.)\n\nToday black Pittsbu
 rgh is known as the setting for August Wilson’s famed plays about noble\, 
 but doomed\, working-class citizens. But this community once had an impact
  on American history that rivaled the far larger black worlds of Harlem an
 d Chicago. It published the most widely read black newspaper in the countr
 y\, urging black voters to switch from the Republican to the Democratic Pa
 rty\, and then rallying black support for World War II. It fielded two of 
 the greatest baseball teams of the Negro Leagues and introduced Jackie Rob
 inson to the Brooklyn Dodgers. Pittsburgh was the childhood home of jazz p
 ioneers Billy Strayhorn\, Billy Eckstine\, Earl Hines\, Mary Lou Williams\
 , and Erroll Garner\; Hall of Fame slugger Josh Gibson—and August Wilson h
 imself. Some of the most glittering figures of the era were changed foreve
 r by the time they spent in the city\, from Joe Louis and Satchel Paige to
  Duke Ellington and Lena Horne.\n\nMark Whitaker’s Smoketown is a “rewardi
 ng trip to a forgotten special place and time” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette). 
 It depicts how ambitious Southern migrants were drawn to a steel-making ci
 ty on a strategic river junction\; how they were shaped by its schools and
  a spirit of commerce with roots in the Gilded Age\; and how their world w
 as eventually destroyed by industrial decline and urban renewal. “Smoketow
 n brilliantly offers us a chance to see this other Black Renaissance and s
 pend time with the many luminaries who sparked it…It’s thanks to such a gi
 fted storyteller as Whitaker that this forgotten chapter of American histo
 ry can finally be told in all its vibrancy and glory” (The New York Times 
 Book Review).\n
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SUMMARY:True Story Book Club: Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Grea
 t Black Renaissance by Mark Whitaker
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