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Immigrant Women in the Land of Dollars
by Elizabeth Ewen
Publisher: Monthly Review Press 1985
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At the turn of the century, millions of European women set sail with their families with the United States. Immigrant Women in the Land of Dollars tells the story of the Jewish and Italian women who came to inhabit New York's Lower East Side during this... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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Impressionist New York
by William H. Gerdts
Publisher: Artabras Publishers 1997
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Organized geographically -- with chapters on Fifth Avenue and Broadway, lower Manhattan Central Park, the waterfront and bridges, the outer boroughs, and so on -- Impressionist New York chronicles the intersection of the city's history with art history... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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In The City: Random Acts Of Awareness
by Colette Brooks
Publisher: W. W. Norton 2002
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An award-winning kaleidoscope of a book that "shocks and stirs the urban heart," capturing city life on the edge of the twenty-first century. Winner of the PEN/Jerard Fund Award, In the City is an idiosyncratic re-creation of the jagged edges and... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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Inside New York 2010
by Nina Pedrad
Publisher: Inside New York 2009
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Inside New Yorkis a complete guidebook to life in the city. Not just a list of places to eat, drink, party, and shop, Inside New Yorkis a detailed resource for the cultivation of a seasoned New Yorker.Since 1978, Inside New Yorkhas treated transplants... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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Irving Howe: A Life Of Passionate Dissent
by Gerald Sorin
Publisher: New York University Press 2002
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By the time he died in 1993 at the age of 73, Irving Howe was one of the twentieth century's most important public thinkers. Deeply passionate, committed to social reform and secular Jewishness, ardently devoted to fiction and poetry, in love with... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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It Happened On Washington Square
by Emily Kies Folpe
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press 2002
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The heart of New York City's Greenwich Village, Washington Square Park has been a vital public space for nearly two centuries. Lined by elegant townhouses, anchored by Stanford White's iconic Washington Arch, and used by students and professionals, dog... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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The Jazz Cadence of American Culture
by Robert G. O'Meally
Publisher: Columbia University Press 1998
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Taking to heart Ralph Ellison's remark that much in American life is "jazz-shaped," The Jazz Cadence of American Culture offers a wide range of eloquent statements about the influence of this art form. Robert G. O'Meally has gathered a comprehensive... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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The Jew of New York
by Ben Katchor
Publisher: Pantheon Books 2000
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In 1825, Mordecai Noah, a New York politician and amateur playwright possessed of a utopian vision, summoned all the lost tribes of Israel to an island near Buffalo in the hope of establishing a Jewish state. His failed plan, a mere footnote in... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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Jews Without Money
by Michael Gold
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers 1996
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As a writer and political activist in early-twentieth-century America, Michael Gold was an important presence on the American cultural scene for more than three decades. Beginning in the 1920s his was a powerful journalistic voice for social change and... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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Leaving Brooklyn
by Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co. PS 3569 .69 L4 1989
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The story Schwartz tells is of her adolescence, her coming of age in the sheltered world of the 1950s, and more aptly, her emergence from the sheltered life of childhood. Its central metaphor, that of the oddity of vision occasioned by a lazy, or "bad"... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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Little Italy
by Emelise Aleandri
Publisher: Arcadia Pub 2002
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Often separated from other immigrants because of their language, Italian immigrants to New York City in the 1880s formed communities apart from their new neighbors. They tended to think of themselves collectively as a small Italian colony, La Colonia,... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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Lost New York
by Nathan Silver
Publisher: Mariner Books 2000
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When it was first published in 1968, the critically acclaimed LOST NEW YORK became an instant classic for the way it reawakened a lost city. Now expanded and updated, with 118 new photographs, the book reveals a fresh, true picture of New York as it has... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York
by Luc Sante
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux 2003
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"A cacophonous poem of democracy and greed, like the streets of New York themselves." --John Vernon, " Los Angeles Times Book Review
Luc Sante's "Low Life is a portrait of America's greatest city, the riotous and anarchic breeding ground of modernity.... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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Manchild in the Promised Land
by Claude Brown
Publisher: Touchstone Press 1999
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Manchild in the Promised Land is indeed one of the most remarkable autobiographies of our time. This thinly fictionalized account of Claude Brown's childhood as a hardened, streetwise criminal trying to survive the toughest streets of Harlem has been... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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Manhattan '45
by Jan Morris
Publisher: JHU Press 1998
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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 which characterized it in this moment... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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Manhattan for Rent, 1785-1850
by Elizabeth Blackmar
Publisher: Cornell University Press 1991
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Winner of the Vernacular Architecture Forum's Abbott Lowell Cummings Prize for 1990 "In this interesting and wide-ranging book, Elizabeth Blackmar investigates the development of New York City's housing market from colonial times to 1850. She discusses... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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Manhattan Monologues
by Louis Auchincloss
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company 2002
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He is our sublime master of manners, our "most astute observer of moral paradox among the affluent" (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.), and "one of the essential American writers" (Kirkus). Now, in his fifty-seventh book, Louis Auchincloss delivers a brilliant... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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Manhattan Unfurled
by Matteo Pericoli and Paul Goldberger
Publisher: Random House Trade 2001
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Matteo Pericoli trained as an architect in Milan and then came to work in New York in 1995. His arrival preceded by just a few days the arrival of the biggest snowstorm of the decade, and the sense of the city in its wake — especially its silence —... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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A Maritime History of New York
by WPA Writers' Project
Publisher: Going Coastal, Inc. 2004
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Republication of a seminal work about New York City’s waterfront which begins with the formation of New York Harbor in the Ice Age and covers the history of the great seaport through when the book was first published in 1941. The Going Coastal edition... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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Memoir Of A Visionary: Antonia Pantoja
by Antonia Pantoja
Publisher: Arte Publico Press 2002
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Antonia Pantoja's memoir describes her life as factory worker and lamp designer, acclaimed social worker and principal engineer of the most enduring Puerto Rican organizations in New York City, including ASPIRA, the non-profit organization devoted to... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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Mexican New York
by Robert C. Smith
Publisher: University of California Press 2004
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Drawing on more than fifteen years of research, Mexican New York offers an intimate view of globalization as it is lived by Mexican immigrants and their children in New York and in Mexico. Robert Courtney Smith's groundbreaking study sheds new light on... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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Mickey Mantle: America's Prodigal Son
by Tony Castro
Publisher: Brassey's 2002
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Both an explosive biography of one of the world's most fascinating and enduring sports heroes and a telling look at the American society of his time, "Mickey Mantle: America's Prodigal Son" is the product of six years of research by former "Sports... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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THE MIDNIGHT BAND OF MERCY
by Michael Blaine
Publisher: Soho Press, Inc. 2004
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A story too strange to be true, except most of it is. Based on actual events, actual crimes, that occurred in New York City in 1893, Michael Blaine’s brilliant historical novel recreates an age when American belief in Scientific Progress led to the... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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Mrs. Astor's New York
by Eric Homberger
Publisher: Yale University Press 2002
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Mrs. Astor, undisputed queen of New York society in the decades before the First World War, used her prestige to create a social aristocracy of unparalleled extravagance and exclusivity. Her story, which reads like a novel by Edith Wharton, sheds... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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