
New York Diaries: 1609 To 2009 (Modern Library Paperbacks)
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 almos...
Series: Modern Library Paperbacks
Paperback: 512 pages
Publisher: Modern Library (December 11, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0812974255
ISBN-13: 978-0812974256
Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 1.2 x 8 inches
Amazon Rank: 516874
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“Anyone who has lived in New York, loved in New York, passed through New York, or just longed for a glimpse of this city of dreams, needs to own Teresa Carpenter's brilliantly conceived and executed New York Diaries.It took someone as gifted as Carpen...”
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, 1947Includes diary excerpts from Sherwood Anderson • Albert Camus • Noël 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 Times“A must-read for anyone who has fallen in love with the Big Apple.”—New York Journal of Books“An absolute masterpiece.”—The Atlantic
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