New York: An Illustrated History
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The companion volume to the PBS television series, with more than
500 full-color and black-and-white illustrations This lavish and
handsomely produced book captures all the beauty, complexity, and
power of New York -- the city that seems the very embodiment of
ambition, aspiration, romance, desire; the city that has epitomized
the entire parade of modern life, with all its possibilities and
problems. Chronicling the story of New York from its establishment
as a Dutch trading post in 1624 to its global preeminence today,
the book is at once the biography of a great city and a vivid
exploration of the myriad forces -- commercial, cultural,
demographic -- that converged in New York to usher in the
contemporary world. Weaving the strands of the city's sweeping
history into a single compelling narrative, New York carries us
through nearly four centuries of turbulent growth and change --
from the first settlement on the tip of Manna-hata Island to the
destruction wrought by the Revolutionary War; to the city's
stunning emergence in the nineteenth century as the nation's
premier industrial metropolis; to the waves of
early-twentieth-century immigration that forever transformed the
city and the nation; to New York's transfiguration as the world's
first modern city -- pioneering skyscrapers, apartment houses,
subways, and highways -- and its role as the birthplace of so much
of American popular culture. Along the way, we witness the building
of the city's celebrated landmarks and neighborhoods, from the
Brooklyn Bridge and the Statue of Liberty to the Empire State
Building and the United Nations; from Wall Street and Times Square
to the Lower East Side, Harlem, and SoHo. The book brims with
vibrant illustrations, including hundreds of rare photographs,
paintings, lithographs, prints, and period maps. The narrative
incorporates the voices and stories of men and women -- statesmen,
entrepreneurs, artists, and visionaries -- who have lived in and
built the city: an extraordinary cast of characters that includes
Peter Stuyvesant, Alexander Hamilton, John Jacob Astor, Walt
Whitman, Boss Tweed, Jacob Riis, Emma Lazarus, J. P. Morgan, Al
Smith, F. Scott Fitzgerald, George Gershwin, Fiorello La Guardia,
Robert Moses, and Jane Jacobs. Accompanying the book's narrative
are interviews with Robert A. Caro, David Levering Lewis, and
Robert A. M. Stern, and essays by a group of distinguished New York
historians and critics -- Kenneth T. Jackson, Mike Wallace,
Marshall Berman, Phillip Lopate, Carol Berkin, and Daniel Czitrom
-- who add their insights about the city to this splendid history.
From the Hardcover edition.
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