Jessie Heckman Hirschl has reviewed books and contributed light verse to magazines. For the past ten years she has made a research hobby of collecting material on “the greatest of all fairs,” which in her view differed from every other that preceded or followed it.
For further reading: Fabulous Chicago , by Emmett Dedmon (Random House, 1953); Chicago: The History of Its Reputation , by Lloyd Lewis and Justin Smith (Harcourt, Brace, 1929); As Others See Chicago: Impressions of Visitors, 1673-1933 (University of Chicago Press, 1933).
