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Manhattan '45

By Jan Morris

Manhattan '45 Social Sciences

Manhattan '45

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In 1945, New York City stood at the pinnacle of its cultural and economic power. Never again would the city possess the unique mixture of innocence and sophistication, romance and formality, generosity and confidence that characterized it in this moment of triumph. In Manhattan '45, acclaimed travel writer and historian Jan Morris evokes the city in all its romantic grandeur. From its beguilingly idiosyncratic architectural style to its unmistakable slang, postwar New York springs to life through Morris's brisk, affectionate prose. Morris visits Wall Street, Harlem, Greenwich Village, Chinatown, and the Lower East Side. She rides the trollies, the El, the Hudson River ferries, and the Twentieth Century Limited. She dines at Schrafft's and Le Pavillon, drinks ale at McSorley's Saloon, sips Manhattans at the Manhattan Club, and spots celebrities at El Morocco. She meets Fiorello La Guardia, Robert Moses, Leo Durocher, I. B. Singer, and Dizzy Gillespie. She tours the tenements of Hell's Kitchen and the Gashouse district, as well as the Foundling Hospital, where the crushing realities of poverty belie the unchallenged exuberance of the age. Taking into account both Social Register and slum, Manhattan '45 celebrates New York's Golden Age as a time when, for one unrepeatable moment in history, anything seemed possible.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
282
Release Date:
1998-06-05
Publication Date:
1998-06-01
Publisher:
Johns Hopkins University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0801859573
ISBN13:
9780801859571
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
401 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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