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440 pp.) In this extensively researched and compellingly argued biography of twentieth-century Chicago, Andrew Diamond contends that the only way to understand the city, and American cities generally, is through the potent power of neoliberalism. In parsing the brutal past of a Chicago composed of two worlds, one white and affluent, the other poor and Black and increasingly Latinx, Diamond argues that party politics mattered far less than the city's consistent move toward embracing neoliberalism. Throughout chapters on these diverse themes, Chicago on tbe Make offers a scathing critique of the failures of neoliberalism, not just in the Windy City, but in the nation as a whole. [Extracted from the article]