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You can’t participate in history without understanding what it is.
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The first part is understanding the client’s parameters, says Mindel.
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Karen Abbott reads from First Ward Ball.
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With non-fiction writing, there’s always something to write.
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Abbott listens to music to get on the right frequency.
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Abbott talks about how she could write about such dark materials.
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We have a vicarious need to see how far we could go, Abbott says.
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It would depend, Abbott says, on their class background.
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At this point, urbanization was starting to change the social dynamic of courtship, says Abbott.
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Legalization would make an unavoidable practice safer.
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Abbott describes the turn-of-the-century culture that created the conditions for white slavery.
Chicago is still the most theatrically corrupt city, Abbott says.
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What motivated the social and political reformers in early 20th-century Chicago?
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Abbott’s book started with a lost great-great aunt, and ended with an exploration of the Everleigh sisters and the politics of sex in turn-of-the-century Chicago.