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1609 to 2009
Modern Library
January 2012
On Sale: January 3, 2012
512 pages
ISBN: 067964332X
EAN: 9780679643326
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Non-Fiction History
New York is a city like no other. Through the centuries, sheβs been embraced and reviled, worshiped and feared, praised and batteredβall the while standing at the crossroads of American politics, business, society, and culture. Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author 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 traveling day by day through the year, these journal entries are selected from four centuries of writingβfrom the early 1600s to the presentβallowing New York natives and visitors, writers and artists, thinkers and bloggers, to reach across time and share vivid and compelling snapshots of life in the Capital of the World. New York Diaries reveals intimate, whimsical, profound, sobering, and indelible reflections on such historical moments as President Washingtonβs first State of the Union address, the death of Abraham Lincoln, the sinking of the Titanic, the end of World War IIβeven the first incursion of Europeans into the cityβs Upper Bay on September 11, 1609, a presage to our countryβs greatest catastrophe nearly four hundred years later. Featuring familiar faces and fascinating unknowns, these pages provide a rich mosaic that is uniquely New York. With excerpts from the writing of Sherwood Anderson β’ William H. Bell β’ Albert Camus β’ Chad the Minx β’ NoΓ«l Coward β’ Dorothy Day β’ John Dos Passos β’ Thomas Edison β’ Allen Ginsberg β’ William B. Gould β’ Keith Haring β’ Henry Hudson β’ Anne Morrow Lindbergh β’ Judith Malina β’ H. L. Mencken β’ John Cameron Mitchell β’ Joyce Carol Oates β’ Eugene OβNeill β’ Philippe Petit β’ Edgar Allan Poe β’ Theodore Roosevelt β’ Elizabeth Cady Stanton β’ William Steinway β’ Alexis de Tocqueville β’ Mark Twain β’ Gertrude Vanderbilt β’ Andy Warhol β’ George Washington β’ Kurt Weill β’ Walt Whitman β’ and many others.
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