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NEW YORK: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY
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Non- Member Price : $69.95
Member Price : $62.96
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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.
The companion volume to the award-winning PBS television series, the book is filled 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 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.
Hardcover (2003 revised edition), 500 + full-color and black-and-white illustrations, 640 pages, 9 x 11¾ inches.
Item Number: 1400041465
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