New York Diaries: 1609 to 2009 - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Teresa CarpenterSeries:Modern Library PaperbacksPublish date:2012-12-11Pages:512
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Modern LibraryISBN-13:9780812974256ISBN-10:812974255UPC:9780812974256Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, History, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, United States, EssaysBook Topic:State & LocalSize:8.02 x 5.23 x 1.11 inchesWeight:0.83Product ID:SCB9WY7Z7X
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 Prize winner Teresa Carpenter, a lifelong diary enthusiast, scoured the archives of libraries, historical societies, and private estates to assemble here an almost holographic view of this iconic metropolis. Starting on January 1 and continuing day by day through the year, these journal entries are selected from four centuries of writing--revealing vivid and compelling snapshots of life in the Capital of the World. "Today I arrived by train in New York City . . . and instantly fell in love with it. Silently, inside myself, I yelled: I should have been born here "--Edward Robb Ellis, May 22, 1947 Includes diary excerpts from Sherwood Anderson - Albert Camus - No l Coward - Dorothy Day - John Dos Passos - Thomas Edison - Allen Ginsberg - Keith Haring - Henry Hudson - Anne Morrow Lindbergh - H. L. Mencken - John Cameron Mitchell - Julia Rosa Newberry - Eugene O'Neill - Edgar Allan Poe - Theodore Roosevelt - Elizabeth Cady Stanton - Alexis de Tocqueville - Mark Twain - Gertrude Vanderbilt - Andy Warhol - George Washington - Walt Whitman - and many others "The most convivial and unorthodox history of New York City one is likely to come across."--The New York Times
"A must-read for anyone who has fallen in love with the Big Apple."--New York Journal of Books
"An absolute masterpiece."--The Atlantic
"A must-read for anyone who has fallen in love with the Big Apple."--New York Journal of Books
"An absolute masterpiece."--The Atlantic
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Modern LibraryISBN-13:9780812974256ISBN-10:812974255UPC:9780812974256Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, History, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, United States, EssaysBook Topic:State & LocalSize:8.02 x 5.23 x 1.11 inchesWeight:0.83Product ID:SCB9WY7Z7X
Teresa Carpenter is the author of four books, including the New York Times bestseller Missing Beauty. She is a former senior editor of The Village Voice, where her feature articles on crime and the law won a Pulitzer Prize in 1981. She lives in New York City's Greenwich Village with her husband, writer Steven Levy, and their son.
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