West Side Stories: Titles to Accompany Lake Forest - Lake Bluff Historical Society Exhibit

West Lake Forest is the subject of the West Side Stories exhibit opening tomorrow at the Lake Forest - Lake Bluff Historical Society.  To accompany that exhibit, we are displaying many books on west Lake Forest people and places and have prepared a reading list that includes books, articles, and web pages.

Here's a sampling of titles on featured people from the exhibit:




Albert D. Lasker,
advertising pioneer and owner of Mill Road Farm and golf course:
Cruikshank, Jeffrey L. and Arthur W. Schultz.   
The Man Who Sold America: 
The Amazing (but True!) Story of Albert D. Lasker 
and the Creation of the Advertising Century  
Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2010.  
BIOG LASKER CRU

Picture Source:
Orphans of the Storm
http://www.orphansofthestorm.org/

Irene Castle, 
dancer, animal lover, 
and founder of Orphans of the Storm:
Castle, Irene.  Castles in the Air.  

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1958.  
BIOG CASTLE CAS

Ginevra King, F. Scott Fitzgerald's first love:  
West, Lames L. W., III.  
The Perfect Hour: 
The Romance of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ginevra King, His First Love.  
New York: Random House, 2005.
813 FITZGERALD WES

Arthur Meeker, Jr., 

columnist, novelist, owner of Arcaday Farm: 
Meeker, Arthur.  Chicago, with Love: 

A Polite and Personal History.  

New York:  Alfred A. Knopf, 1955.  977.311 MEE

Picture Source:
The University of Chicago Library
https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/

Helen Culver, Hull House Donor:

Goodspeed, Thomas Wakefield.  

“Helen Culver” pages 77-99 in 

The University of Chicago Biographical Sketches, Vol. 2. 

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1922.  

REF 920.077

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