One Summer: America, 1927 (67 page)

Chapter 29

After decades of neglect, Kenesaw Mountain Landis finally received the recognition of a biography with David Pietrusza’s excellent
Judge and Jury: The Life and Times of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis
in 1998. Some additional technical details come from
A Court That Shaped America: Chicago’s Federal District Court from Abe Lincoln to Abbie Hoffman
by Richard Cahan. Chicago’s greatest criminal is treated in
Capone: The Life and World of Al Capone
by John Kobler;
Capone: The Man and the Era
by Laurence Bergreen; and
Get Capone
by Jonathan Eig. The life of Robert R. McCormick is the subject of
The Colonel
by Richard Norton Smith and features prominently in
The Magnificent Medills
by Megan McKinney. The boorish mayor Bill Thompson is anatomized at length in “The Private Wars of Chicago’s Big Bill Thompson” in the
Journal of Library History
, Summer 1980. More general histories are Kenneth Allsop’s
The Bootleggers
, John Landesco’s
Organized Crime in Chicago
, and Dominic A. Pacyga’s
Chicago: A Biography
.

Chapter 30

Descriptions of the last month of the 1927 baseball season are taken principally from the
New York Times
and from the baseball books already cited. Of additional importance to this chapter was Henry W. Thomas’s splendid and moving biography,
Walter Johnson: Baseball’s Big Train
.

Epilogue

A full survey of life in Nazi Germany, including the shocking events of Kristallnacht, can be found in
Hitlerland
by Andrew Nagorski. Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s
comments appear in
The Flower and the Nettle: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1936–1939
. The news of Charles Lindbergh’s serial infidelities from 1957 to sometime shortly before his death were widely reported in 2003 after one of his German children took a DNA test that proved Lindbergh’s paternity.

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