"All books by Michael Lesy"
Long Time Coming: A Photographic Portrait of America, 1935-1943
Hardback, 2002
Over 400 rarely or never-seen photographs of a vanished America.
Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties
Paperback, 2008
"Vivid, laconic, and crisp. The bodies fall like dominoes, and every word sounds like it was shot from a gun. And as you might expect from Lesy, the photographs are extraordinary." —Luc Sante
Looking Backward: A Photographic Portrait of the World at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
Hardback, 2017
Haunting views of the early twentieth century’s most significant events flank pictures of the last remnants of the premodern world.
Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties
E Book, 2015
"Vivid, laconic, and crisp. The bodies fall like dominoes, and every word sounds like it was shot from a gun. And as you might expect from Lesy, the photographs are extraordinary." —Luc Sante
Repast: Dining Out at the Dawn of the New American Century, 1900-1910
Hardback, 2013
What we ate, how we ate, and how eating changed during America’s first real food revolution, 1900–1910.
Repast: Dining Out at the Dawn of the New American Century, 1900-1910
E Book, 2013
What we ate, how we ate, and how eating changed during America’s first real food revolution, 1900–1910.