New York Diaries: 1609 to 2009
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New York Diaries: 1609 to 2009 by Teresa Carpenter
New York is a city like no other. Through the centuries, she's been embraced and reviled, worshipped and feared, praised and battered--all the while standing at the crossroads of American politics, business, society, and culture. Pulitzer Prize winner 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 continuing day by day through the year, these journal entries are selected from four centuries of writing--revealing vivid and compelling snapshots of life in the Capital of the World. Today I arrived by train in New York City . . . and instantly fell in love with it. Silently, inside myself, I yelled: I should have been born here --Edward Robb Ellis, May 22, 1947 Includes diary excerpts from Sherwood Anderson - Albert Camus - No l Coward - Dorothy Day - John Dos Passos - Thomas Edison - Allen Ginsberg - Keith Haring - Henry Hudson - Anne Morrow Lindbergh - H. L. Mencken - John Cameron Mitchell - Julia Rosa Newberry - Eugene O'Neill - Edgar Allan Poe - Theodore Roosevelt - Elizabeth Cady Stanton - Alexis de Tocqueville - Mark Twain - Gertrude Vanderbilt - Andy Warhol - George Washington - Walt Whitman - and many others The most convivial and unorthodox history of New York City one is likely to come across.--The New York TimesA must-read for anyone who has fallen in love with the Big Apple.--New York Journal of Books
An absolute masterpiece.--The Atlantic
Teresa Carpenter is the author of four books, including Lost Beauty, which was a New York Times bestseller. She was a former senior editor at The Village Voice, where she earned a Pulitzer Prize for her feature pieces on crime and the law in 1981. Her spouse, writer Steven Levy, and their son live in Greenwich Village, New York City.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780812974256 |
| ISBN 10 | 0812974255 |
| Title | New York Diaries: 1609 to 2009 |
| Author | Teresa Carpenter |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2012-12-11 |
| Number of pages | 512 |
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