{"product_id":"the-soul-of-pittsburgh-by-ed-simon","title":"The Soul of Pittsburgh by Ed Simon","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“Europe stretches to the Alleghenies, America lies beyond.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“They are my people and this is my town and it does my heart good just to be here.” - Art Rooney Sr. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePittsburgh contains multitudes. The city bestows a character of contradiction, love of place and strength of community on anyone lucky to be born and raised there. A town whose rivers were once lined with belching steel mills but also hosted the world’s first major modern art exhibition is not easily defined. From the decline of the steel industry and the exodus of a vast diaspora of Pittsburghers to its reinvention as a trendy mid-sized metropolis, the ethos of the Steel City remains ever-changing. Across thirteen interconnected essays, author Ed Simon examines the city’s identity in all of its minutia―U.S. Steel and the U.S. Steelworkers; dive bars and churches; the black and gold and the Black and white; hills, bridges and inclines; and geography as destiny.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woolly Bear Books and Gifts","offers":[{"title":"Paperback.","offer_id":56311207919782,"sku":"9781467157315","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/4637\/7638\/files\/IMG-2171.jpg?v=1773948899","url":"https:\/\/woollybearbooks.com\/products\/the-soul-of-pittsburgh-by-ed-simon","provider":"Woolly Bear Books and Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}