Minneapolis: An Urban Biography Book

  Minneapolis: An Urban Biography Author Tom Weber  A concise history, featuring stories that are familiar, surprising, and sure to change the way you see the City of Lakes. Paperback,192 pages, 45 b&w photos, 6 x 9 inches A concise history, featuring stories that are familiar, surprising, and sure to change the way you see the City of Lakes. Minneapolis is Minneapolis because of the water—because of the Mississippi River, and St. Anthony Falls, and the beautiful lakes that dot the city’s neighborhoods. Energized by the power of a magnificent waterfall, it became a major, even global, city. In this succinct and thought-provoking book, Tom Weber provides a biography of the City of Lakes, starting with Bdote, the confluence of the Mississippi and the Minnesota River and a sacred place for Dakota people, who have lived here for millennia. Since the city’s beginnings in the 1850s, Minneapolis has experienced continual collapses and rebuilding. Some collapses were real, as when the