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 of triumph. Acclaimed travel writer and historian Jan Morris evokes the city and the era in all its romantic grandeur.
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Required Reading for Lovers of New York:
Jan Morris' favorite city is presented in its moment of greatest hope, when the war was won and America was in a blissful state indeed. Morris always writes beautifully of places as characters in and of themselves. These are usually distilled in essay form to show up some single, wonderful characteristic of the place. She's always done that better than any other travel writer, even if it sounds like pigeon-holing. But this amazing book does anything but pigeonhole. Morris has composed a kind of... more info
Great Sense of Place:
Few books on New York's past are as rich and revealing as this work. The author does an excellent job of recreating the sense of place of New York. Urban culture, economy, and race relations are dealt with in a very creative way. I found that while its focus is the New York of the 1940s this book really is about a larger American experience that reaches into our day.
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