If Christ Came to Chicago (Classic Reprint): A Plea for the Union of All Who Love, in the Service of All Who Suffer - Couverture souple

William Thomas Stead

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1332460305 ISBN 13 : 9781332460304

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from If Christ Came to Chicago

Seventy thousand copies of this volume were ordered in America before a single copy was issued from the press in Chicago. Owing to my refusal to allow any but Union labour to be employed in producing the book, the binders were at first unable to cope with the demand. But as I did not think that If Christ came to Chicago He would go to sweat shops for His printing, the public had to wait till the Union binderies overtook the demand. The opportune refusal of the American News Company and the Union News Company to handle the book until the Black List was cut out somewhat relieved the pressure. As the Companies possess an absolute monopoly of sale on all the railways in the United States, I cut out the list. I did this the more readily because the interest in the Black List was so strictly local to Chicago that I did not think it would be worth while reproducing it in the present Edition. The difficulty of meeting the American demand renders it impossible to procure Copies from Chicago in time to supply the English market. I have therefore reprinted it on this side; and this volume, written in Chicago, printed in Edinburgh, and published in London, is typical of the unity of the English-speaking world. It is perhaps hardly necessary for me to say more than a word in presenting this book to the readers in the Old World Nothing can be further from the mark than to represent it as an attack upon Chicago. If I had not believed so much in the essential goodness of her citizens.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from If Christ Came to Chicago: A Plea for the Union of All Who Love, in the Service of All Who Suffer

Seventy thousand copies of this volume were ordered in America before a single copy was issued from the press in Chicago. Owing to my refusal to allow any but Union labour to be employed in producing the book, the binders were at first unable to cope with the demand. But as I did not think that 'If Christ came to Chicago' He would go to sweat shops for His printing, the public had to wait till the Union binderies overtook the demand.

The opportune refusal of the American News Company and the Union News Company to handle the book until the Black List was cut out somewhat relieved the pressure. As the Companies possess an absolute monopoly of sale on all the railways in the United States, I cut out the list. I did this the more readily because the interest in the Black List was so strictly local to Chicago that I did not think it would be worth while reproducing it in the present Edition.

The difficulty of meeting the American demand renders it impossible to procure copies from Chicago in time to supply the English market. I have therefore reprinted it on this side; and this volume, written in Chicago, printed in Edinburgh, and published in London, is typical of the unity of the English-speaking world.

It is perhaps hardly necessary for me to say more than a word in presenting this book to the readers in the Old World. Nothing can be further from the mark than to represent it as an attack upon Chicago.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

Présentation de l'éditeur

This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1332460305
• ISBN 13: 9781332460304
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 486
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Copytech (UK) Ltd, Trading as Printondemand-worldwide.com; gpsr@podww.com; ; 9 Culley Court; Orton Southgate; Peterborough; Cambridgeshire; PE2 6WA; Royaume-Uni
• Personne responsable: Easy Access System Europe Oü, 16879218; +358405003575; gpsr.requests@easproject.com; ; Mustamäe tee 50; Tallinn; 10621; Estonie