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The Gilded Age In New York, 1870 - 1910
Esther Crain
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Description for The Gilded Age In New York, 1870 - 1910
Hardback. The drama, expansion, and wealth of New York City's transformative era, from 1870 to 1910, captured in a magnificently illustrated hardcover. Num Pages: 288 pages, 350 b&w and colour. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 315 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1770.
Mark Twain coined the term the Gilded Age for this period of growth and extravagance, experienced most dramatically in New York City from the 1870s to 1910. More than half of America's millionaires lived in the city. Previously unimaginable sums of money were made and spent, while poor immigrants toiled away in tenements. Author Esther Crain writes, There was an incredible energy, a sense of greatness and destiny. Things were literally going up-skyscrapers, elevated train tracks, new neighborhoods and parks. Accompanying all of that was an equal amount of greed and lust. Crime, vice, political scandals-the ... Read more
Mark Twain coined the term the Gilded Age for this period of growth and extravagance, experienced most dramatically in New York City from the 1870s to 1910. More than half of America's millionaires lived in the city. Previously unimaginable sums of money were made and spent, while poor immigrants toiled away in tenements. Author Esther Crain writes, There was an incredible energy, a sense of greatness and destiny. Things were literally going up-skyscrapers, elevated train tracks, new neighborhoods and parks. Accompanying all of that was an equal amount of greed and lust. Crime, vice, political scandals-the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
1769g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780316353663
SKU
V9780316353663
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About Esther Crain
Esther Crain is a writer and native New Yorker. In 2008 she launched Ephemeral New York, a website that chronicles the city(1)s past through photos, newspaper articles, art, and other artifacts. The site has been featured in The New York Times, The New York Post, The Daily News, and Time Out New York.The New-York Historical Society, one of America(1)s pre-eminent ... Read more
Reviews for The Gilded Age In New York, 1870 - 1910
Crain unspools the story of four decades in crisp prose studded with pictures.
Entertainment Weekly A beguiling, lavishly illustrated book that. . . epitomizes what Ms. Crain calls the city's incredible energy and sense of its own greatness and destiny.
Sam Roberts, The New York Times
Entertainment Weekly A beguiling, lavishly illustrated book that. . . epitomizes what Ms. Crain calls the city's incredible energy and sense of its own greatness and destiny.
Sam Roberts, The New York Times