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Brooklyn. The word conjures up a host of images--The Honeymooners, Ebbets Field, Walt Whitman, Saturday Night Fever and the West Indian Carnival. Guiding us into this historical panorama through five larger-than-life points of entry--including The Brooklyn Bridge, The Brooklyn Navy Yard, Coney Island, and the Brooklyn Dodgers--Ellen Snyder-Grenier highlights the people, events, and places that have made Brooklyn Brooklyn. Lavishly illustrated with prints, paintings, memorabilia, and objects from The Brooklyn Historical Society's unparalleled collection, Brooklyn! will bring every reader closer to the Brooklyn of legend and fact. Author note: Formerly Chief Curator at the Brooklyn Historical Society, Ellen M. Snyder-Grenier is Director of Special Projects at the New Jersey Historical Society.
"This is the best history of my hometown I've ever readBrooklyn is a very special place and Ellen Snyder-Grenier has captured it all. A great work!"-Larry King "More than just a history of Brooklyn, this fascinating and comprehensive portrait of one of the most diverse urban areas in the world is a commentary on the growth of America and the immigrant vision. ...This is a commendable effort, one of those unusual hybrids that works as a history and as a gift book."-Publishers Weekly, starred review "[The book is] valuable not only to those who are interested in pictorial images of Brooklyn but also to those who seek greater information on one of the most important urban centers in the United States."-The Public Historian "It's been famously said that only the dead know Brooklyn, but those seeking a less extreme path to knowledge will find this exemplary book to be just what is needed. Thorough and detailed without being stuffy, it covers the borough by focusing on five of its most significant totems...Knowledgeable Brooklynites will appreciate the book's accurate references to such borough traditions as skelly (a street game) and the spaldeen (a small pink ball used in street games), while even those who have never been east of the Continental Divide will enjoy the enormous number of carefully chosen black-and-white and color illustrations."-Kenneth Turan, The Los Angeles Times "This volume is a wonderful guide explaining Brooklyn's rich and colorful history, its developing neighborhoods and economic cycles. Using prints, paintings and pictures from the collection of the Brooklyn Historical Society, Snyder-Grenier lovingly melds legend and fact."-Patrick H. Samway, America "From the Puerto Rican diaspora of the early 1900s to the migration of African Americans from the tormented South, to the massive immigration of Eastern Europeans, Brooklyn! An Illustrated History is an intriguing and comprehensive depiction of the patchwork metropolis we affectionately call 'Brooklyn.'"-Congresswoman Nydia M. Velazquez, 12th District, New York "To have played a small role in the history of the wonderful borough of Brooklyn makes me very proud. This book increases that pride greatly."-Clem Labine, former Brooklyn Dodger "This book is about the real Brooklyn and all the values that are in that culture where I played baseball and where I raised my kids."-Carl Erskine, former Brooklyn Dodger
Formerly Chief Curator at the Brooklyn Historical Society, Ellen M. Snyder-Grenier is Director of Special Projects at the New Jersey Historical Society.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781566394086 |
| ISBN 10 | 1566394082 |
| Title | Brooklyn |
| Author | E Snyder–grenier |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Temple University Press,U.S. |
| Year published | 1996-06-24 |
| Number of pages | 357 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |