Ny History
WHAT A TIME IT WAS!: LEONARD LYONS AND THE GOLDEN AGE OF NEW YORK NIGHTLIFE
Written by Lyons, Jeffrey
A star-studded follow-up to Stories My Father Told Me, with hundreds of new anecdotes about celebrities from Garbo to Gore Vidal This remarkable collection of stories, hand-picked from the archive of legendary New York Post columnist Leonard Lyons by his son, film critic Jeffrey Lyons, will transport readers back to the sparkling peak of New York City nightlife.
GAY NEW YORK: GENDER, URBAN CULTURE, AND THE MAKING OF THE GAY MALE WORLD, 1890-1940 OE
Written by Chauncey, George
Winner of the 1994 "Los Angeles Times" Book Prize for History, this brilliant work challenges the conventional wisdom that before the 1960s gay life existed only in the closet.
BUILDING SEAGRAM
Written by Lambert, Phyllis
A personal, authoritative history of one of the 20th century's most influential buildings The Seagram building rises over New York's Park Avenue, seeming to float above the street with perfect lines of bronze and glass.
POWER BROKER: ROBERT MOSES AND THE FALL OF NEW YORK
Written by Caro, Robert A
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only the saga of one man's incredible accumulation of power but the story of his shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York.
KING OF THE JEWS: THE GREATEST MOB STORT NEVER TOLD (ARNOLD ROTHSTEIN)
Written by Tosches, Nick
Flamboyant mobster Arnold Rothstein was gambling and money. He was the inspiration for Meyer Wolfsheim in The Great Gatsby and Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls. It was rumored he masterminded the 1919 World Series fix. He was Mr. Broadway, a king of corruption holding court from his private booth at Lindy's Restaurant.
GREAT BRIDGE: THE EPIC STORY OF THE BUILDING OF THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE
Written by McCullough, David
Celebrating the centennial of the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge, here is the classic account of one of the greatest engineering feats of all time.
LOW LIFE: LURES AND SNARES OF OLD NEW YORK
Written by Sante, Lucy
Lucy Sante's Low Life is a portrait of America's greatest city, the riotous and anarchic breeding ground of modernity.
HOUSE OF OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNE: FIFTEEN CENTRAL PARK WEST, THE WORLD'S MOST POWERFUL ADDRESS
Written by Gross, Michael
"Michael Gross's new book...packs [in] almost as many stories as there are apartments in the building. The Jackie Collins of real estate likes to map expressions of power, money and ego...
MURDER OF HELEN JEWETT: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF A PROSTITUTE IN NINETENTH-CENTURY NEW YORK
Written by Cohen, Patricia Cline
In 1836, the murder of a young prostitute made headlines in New York City and around the country, inaugurating a sex-and-death sensationalism in news reporting that haunts us today. Patricia Cline Cohen goes behind these first lurid accounts to reconstruct the story of the mysterious victim, Helen Jewett.
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