TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hemon,Aleksandar
AU  - Božović,Velibor
ED  - Chicago History Museum.
TI  - The Lazarus project
SN  - 9781594489884 (hbk)
AV  - PS3608.E48 L39 2008
U1  - 813.54 H37 23
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New York
PB  - Riverhead Books
KW  - Averbuch, Lazarus,
KW  - Murder
KW  - Illinois
KW  - Chicago
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - Chicago (Ill.)
KW  - Social conditions
N1  - "Riverhead Books."; CAS; CBA; CoED; COECS; CHS
N2  - On March 2, 1908, nineteen-year-old Lazarus Averbuch, a recent Jewish immigrant from Eastern Europe to Chicago, knocked on the front door of the house of George Shippy, the chief of Chicago police. When Shippy came to the door, Averbuch offered him what he said was an important letter. Instead of taking the letter, Shippy shot Averbuch twice, killing him. When Shippy released a statement casting Averbuch as a would-be anarchist assassin and agent of foreign political operatives, he all but set off a city and a country already simmering with ethnic and political tensions. Now, in the twenty-first century, a young writer in Chicago, Brik, also from Eastern Europe, becomes obsessed with Lazarus story--what really happened, and why?--From publisher description
ER  -