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Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge (Touchstone Books)
by David McCullough  
Publisher Comments This monumental book is the enthralling story of one of the greatest events in our nation's history, during the Age of Optimism -- a period when Americans were convinced in their hearts that all things were possible. In the years around 1870, when the...
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Sale: $10.98 Hardcover List Price $25.00
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Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
by David Von Drehle
Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-325) and index....
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Conquering Gotham: Building Penn Station and Its Tunnels
by Jill Jonnes Publisher Comments aSuperb. A] first-rate narrativea (The Wall Street Journal ) about the controversial construction of New Yorkas beloved original Penn Station and its tunnels\ As bestselling books like Ron Chernowas Titan and David McCulloughas The Great Bridge affirm...
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Republic of Dreams: Greenwich Village: The American Bohemia, 1910-1960
by Ross Wetzsteon Publisher Comments If the twentieth century was the American century, it can be argued that it was more specifically the New York century, and Greenwich Village was the incubator of every important writer, artist, and political movement of the period. From the century's...
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Welcome to Shirley: A Memoir from an Atomic Town
by Kelly McMasters Publisher Comments Shirley seemed to be doomed from the beginning. Founded by a Vaudevillian huckster who touted it as a seaside haven despite the sand bar that blocks access to the shore, the town has been plagued by one disaster after another — a UFO, a childhood...
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Inventing Niagara: Beauty, Power, and Lies
by Ginger Strand Publisher Comments Americans call Niagara Falls a natural wonder, but the Falls aren't very natural anymore. In fact, they are a study in artifice. Water diverted, riverbed reshaped, brink stabilized and landscape redesigned, the Falls are more a monument to man's meddling...
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The Long-Winded Lady
by Maeve Brennan Publisher Comments From 1954 to 1981, Maeve Brennan contributed to The New Yorker's Talk of the Town department under the pen name the long-winded lady. Her unforgettable sketches - prose snapshots of life in the streets, diners, and cheap hotels just off Times Square...
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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,...
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Big Oyster : History on the Half Shell (06 Edition)
by Mark Kurlansky Publisher Comments “Part treatise, part miscellany, unfailingly entertaining.” –The New York Times “A small pearl of a book . . . a great tale of the growth of a modern city as seen through the rise and fall of the lowly oyster.” –Rocky...
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Little Chapel on the River: A Pub, a Town and the Search for What Matters Most
by Gwendolyn Bounds Publisher Comments Nestled along the banks of the Hudson River directly across from the United States Military Academy at West Point sits the rural town of Garrison, New York, home to Guinan's—a legendary Irish drinking hole and country store. While searching for a...
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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...
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Republic of Dreams: Greenwich Village: The American Bohemia, 1910-1960
by Ross Wetzsteon Publisher Comments A richly woven history of Greenwich Village's Golden Age and of the artists, rebels, and eccentrics who make the Village a cultural phenomenon. Ross Wetzsteon presents a vibrant portrait of the Village through the remarkable and often interrelated...
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Legends of the Chelsea Hotel: Living with the Artists and Outlaws of New York's Rebel Mecca
by Ed Hamilton Publisher Comments There's a current that courses through the old Chelsea Hotel, an electricity that drives people relentlessly to create. It's an energy that longtime resident and creator of "Living with Legends: Hotel Chelsea Blog" Ed Hamilton will tell you often drives...
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American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center
by William Langewiesche Publisher Comments The unsung-and revealing-story of the Herculean effort to finish the dismantling that terrorism began Unlike any other reporter, William Langewiesche has had unrestricted access to Ground Zero and the people involved in the cleanup. He has literally...
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Gone To New York: Adventures in City (06 Edition)
by Frazier Publisher Comments Welcome to Ian Frazier's New York, where every block is an event, and where the denizens are larger than life. Meet landlord extraordinaire Zvi Hugo Segal, and the man who scaled the World Trade Center. Learn the location of Manhattan's antipodes...
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City on the Edge: Buffalo, New York
by Mark Goldman Book News Annotation This is a history of 20th century Buffalo, New York, as told by Goldman ("a successful entrepreneur who has played a major role in revitalizing the cultural life of downtown Buffalo"). His central focus is on the industrial and other economic...
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New York City: A Photograghic Tour (Photographic Tour)
by Carl Highsmith Publisher Comments New York City is known for its towering skyscrapers, world-class theaters and museums, honking taxis, and bustling crowds. But it is so much more. It is a smoky jazz club in Harlem, an All Saints Day feast in Queens, an extra-innings baseball game in the...
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Terrible Honesty Mongrel Manhattan in TH
by Ann Douglas Publisher Comments Terrible Honesty is the biography of a decade, a portrait of the soul of a generation - based on the lives and work of more than a hundred men and women. In a strikingly original interpretation that brings the Jazz Age to life in a wholly new way, Ann...
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New York, New York: The City in Art and Literature
by Metropolitan Museum Publisher Comments Writers have described New York City since the harbor was discovered in 1524. Artists have captured its every sparkle and shadow. In New York, New York, paintings, prints, photographs, postcards, and other works of art from the Museum's encyclopedic...
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September Eleventh: An Oral History
by Dean E. Murphy
Publisher Comments About 3,000 people lost their lives in the terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C., on September 11, 2001. Thousands more narrowly escaped, their survival a result of eerily prescient spur-of-the-moment decisions, acts of superhuman...
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