OUR PHILADELPHIA

by Frank Brookhouser ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 7, 1957

A book about Philadelphia for Philadelphians by Philadelphia's favorite columnist and commentator. It is- for outsiders- merely a pleasant hit or miss ramble, lacking the originality and bite of The Proper Bostonians. A love story by a lover who still can see her faults, this takes the reader into the small town that is Philadelphia:- its past and present politics, its historical richness and modern problems, its traffic jams, its incredible water supply, its inhabitants and their round of living. There are long and short anecdotes about Philadelphians and Main Liners, ""case histories"" and a good many statistics. For the visitor there is something of hotels, restaurants, night clubs, places of historical interest. But for social historians it reads like a potpourri of random columns and lacks the penetration that might have given it more substance and order.

Pub Date: Nov. 7, 1957

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Doubleday

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Nov. 1, 1957

Categories: NONFICTION