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Summer at Tiffany by Marjorie Hart Publisher Comments New York City, 1945. Marjorie Jacobson and her best friend, Marty Garrett, arrive fresh from the Kappa house at the University of Iowa hoping to find summer positions as shopgirls. Turned away from the top department stores, they miraculously find jobs... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America by Russell Shorto Publisher Comments In a landmark work of history, Russell Shorto presents astonishing information on the founding of our nation and reveals in riveting detail the crucial role of the Dutch in making America what it is today. In the late 1960s, an archivist in the New... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge (Touchstone Books) by David McCullough Publisher Comments This monumental book tells the enthralling story of one of the greatest accomplishments in our nations history, the building of what was then the longest suspension bridge in the world. The Brooklyn Bridge rose out of the expansive era following the... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Doomed Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York by Richard Zacks Publisher Comments When young Theodore Roosevelt was appointed police commissioner of New York City, he had the astounding gall to try to shut down the brothels, gambling joints, and after-hours saloons. This is the story of how TR took on Manhattan vice . . . and vice won.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $18.73 New - Hardcover
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Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York by Luc Sante Publisher Comments From opium dens to the Bowery's suicide saloons, this lively, learned work of outlaw urban history ushers readers through the dark heart of New York City in the years between 1840 and 1919. "A systematic, well-researched historical account of... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace Publisher Comments To European explorers, it was Eden, a paradise of waist-high grasses, towering stands of walnut, maple, chestnut, and oak, and forests that teemed with bears, wolves, raccoons, beavers, otters, and foxes. Today, it is the site of Broadway and Wall Street,... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price: $25.00 Used - Hardcover
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Brooklyn: A State of Mind by Michael W Robbins Publisher Comments Celebrate America's hometown in a rollicking portrait from Brooklyn's legion of writers, artists, raconteurs and neighborhood savants. Arthur Miller on Midwood, Spike Lee on Fort Greene, Susan Brownmiller as a Flatbush girl, David Levine's portraits of... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan, 1811-2011 by Museum Of The City Of New York Publisher Comments Laying out Manhattan's street grid and providing a rationale for the growth of New York was the city's first great civic enterprise, not to mention a brazenly ambitious project and major milestone in the history of city planning. The grid created the... (read more) Your price: $40.00 New - Hardcover
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Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City by Eric W. Sanderson Publisher Comments On September 12, 1609, Henry Hudson first set eyes on the land that would become Manhattan. It's difficult for us to imagine what he saw, but for more than a decade, landscape ecologist Eric Sanderson has been working to do just that. Mannahatta: A... (read more) List Price $42.00 Your price: $22.00 Used - Hardcover
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Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York by Luc Sante Publisher Comments Luc Sante's Low Life is a portrait of America's greatest city, the riotous and anarchic breeding ground of modernity. This is not the familiar saga of mansions, avenues, and robber barons, but the messy, turbulent, often murderous story of the city's... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Manhattan Memoir: American Girl/Manhattan, When I Was Young/Speaking with Strangers by Mary Cantwell Publisher Comments The New York Times said that Mary Cantwell, in telling the story of her life, "Makes you discover yourself." Now, gathered in a single volume, are her three beautifully etched, unflinchingly honest memoirs. Cantwell's first book, American Girl, evoked... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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New York at War: Four Centuries of Combat, Fear, and Intrigue in Gotham by Steven H Jaffe Publisher Comments In New York at War, historian Steven H. Jaffe offers an alternative history of New York City—arguably the most powerful and yet also the most vulnerable city on earth, and a place whose landscape, culture, and inhabitants have been shaped by... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City (Columbia History of Urban Life) by Jonathan Soffer Publisher Comments In 1978, Ed Koch assumed control of a city plagued by filth, crime, bankruptcy, and racial tensions. By the end of his mayoral run in 1989 and despite the Wall Street crash of 1987, his administration had begun rebuilding neighborhoods and infrastructure.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $16.95 Sale - Hardcover
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September 11: A Testimony by Reuters News Service Synopsis Gathers some of the most dramatic and memorable images of the events of September 11, 2001, and the days following, including rescue efforts and reactions around the world.... (read more) List Price $29.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Modern New York: The Life and Economics of a City by Greg David Publisher Comments The economic history of New York is filled with high-stakes drama and big figures. In Modern New York, renowned economist and political commentator Greg David tells the story of the metropoliss financial highs and lows since the 1960s. He takes a... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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More Powerful Than Dynamite: Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York's Year of Anarchy by Thai Jones Publisher Comments In the year that saw the start of World War I, the United States was itself on the verge of revolution: industrial depression in the east, striking coal miners in Colorado, and increasingly tense relations with Mexico. "There was blood in the air that... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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Taxi!: A Social History of the New York City Cabdriver by Graham Hodges Publisher Comments Taxi! is the first book-length history of New York City cabdrivers and the community they comprise. From labor unrest and racial strife to ruthless competition and political machinations, this deftly woven narrative captures the people -- lower-class... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Statue of Liberty: A Transatlantic Story (Icons of America) by Edward Berenson Publisher Comments A universally recognized icon, the Statue of Liberty is perhaps the most beloved of all American symbols. Yet no one living in 1885, when the crated monument arrived in New York Harbor, could have foreseen the central place the Statue of Liberty would... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - Hardcover
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Around Washington Square: An Illustrated History of Greenwich Village by Luther Harris Synopsis "A sprawling, comprehensive account of the neighborhood's history from 1797 to the present day... It is a treasure trove for both the historian and the lover of the Village." -- New York... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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New York Diaries: 1609 to 2009 by Teresa (edt) Carpenter Publisher Comments New York is a city like no other. Through the centuries, she’s been embraced and reviled, worshipped and feared, praised and battered—all the while standing at the crossroads of American politics, business, society, and culture. Pulitzer... (read more) Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover
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