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Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Movies
Source: Amazon
Author: James Sanders
- A practicing architect, co-scripter of Ric Burns's New York: A Documentary Film and coauthor of that PBS series's companion volume now takes on the many movies showing New York in both location scenes and Hollywood sets. Sanders posits a mythic cityscape within the movie world, and his lengthy book is an attempt to enter, chart and define that world. (2001)
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Molto Agitato: The Mayhem Behind the Music at the Metropolitan Opera
Source: Amazon
Author: Johanna Fiedler
- A lively history of an institution often involved in controversy and personality clashes. Includes the early history of the Met, which began when the newly wealthy Mrs. Vanderbilt was turned down for a box at the old Academy of Music, then New York's opera house, and decided, in 1883, to start her own. (2001)
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New York: An Illustrated History
Source: Amazon
Author: Ric Burns, James Sanders, and Lisa Ades
- From its 17th-century beginnings as a small Dutch colony on the far edge of an empire to its late-20th-century status as one of the world's greatest cities, New York has been home to millions of fascinating people. PBS darling Ric Burns (brother of Ken) teamed up with James Sanders and Lisa Ades to produce this spectacular volume. Some 500 illustrations enhance the narrative. (2001)
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Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
Source: Amazon
Author: Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace
- "Like the city it celebrates, Gotham is massive and endlessly fascinating. This narrative of well over 1,000 pages ... copiously chronicles New York City from the primeval days of the Lenape Indians to the era when, with Teddy Roosevelt as police commissioner, the great American city became regarded as 'Capital of the World.'" (1998)
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The Empire State: A History of New York
Source: Amazon
Author: Milton M. Klein
- (November 2001)
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The Bronx Lost, Found, and Remembered, 1935-1975
Source: Amazon
Author: Stephen M. Samtur and Martin A. Jackson
- From Martin Jackson: "Writing the book was a pleasure in many ways. It gave me the chance to look at lots of Bronx pictures, and thereby travel back in time to a different, and usually better, time. Nobody who lived, worked or had relatives in the Bronx is immune to the lure of nostalgia for those kinder days." (1999)
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Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan
Source: Amazon
Author: Rem Koolhaas
- "Filled with fascinating facts, as well as photographs, postcards, maps, watercolors, and drawings, the vibrancy of Koolhaas's poignant exploration of Gotham equals the heady, frenetic energy of the city itself. Anyone who loves New York will want to own this book." (1995)
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Empire: A Tale of Obsession, Betrayal, and the Battle for an American Icon
Source: Amazon
Author: Mitchell Pacelle
- "Each day over 4,000 people take the elevator up to the observatory of the Empire State Building to catch a minute of glory. What almost none of them have known -- until now -- is just how many people have fought to own outright the crown jewel beneath them, and the chaos that these trophy hunters have caused." (2001)
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The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld
Source: Amazon
Author: Herbert Asbury and Luc Sante
- A tour through a now unrecognizable city of abysmal poverty and habitual violence cobbled from legend, memory, police records, the self-aggrandizements of aging crooks, popular journalism, and solid historical research. (2001)
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Badges of the Bravest: A Pictorial History of Fire Departments in New York City
Source: Turner Publishing
Author: Gary Urbanowicz
- This book chronicles the history of the largest fire service in the country, the FDNY. Includes a lavish collection of 950 badges, the most time-honored of firefighters’ symbols, along with intriguing photographs and documents.
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Geology of New York: A Simplified Account
Source: Amazon
Author: Yngvar W. Isachsen (editor)
- This 300 page book is profusely illustrated with nearly 200 figures. It explains how the State's bedrock was formed and how its landscape evolved. (2000)
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A Legend in the Making: The New York Yankees in 1939
Source: Amazon
Author: Richard J. Tofel
- From an Amazon reader: "Tofel brings us back to a time when baseball was more than a game. Must reading for anyone who ever wondered how America came to have a National Pastime." (2002)
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New York Yankees: Seasons of Glory
Source: Amazon
Author: William Hageman, Warren N. Wilbert, and Dan Schlossberg
- "I strongly recommend New York Yankees: Seasons of Glory. From the Babe to Joe D., Gehrig to Reggie, Berra, Rizzuto, and the Goose, they're all here in a superb bit of baseball lore." --Jeffrey Lyons, NBC (2001)
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Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy
Source: Walker Books
Author: Diana Preston
- In May 1915 the ocean liner Lusitania, crossing from New York to Liverpool, was torpedoed by a German submarine and sank with 1,200 lives lost. It sparked the American entry into World War I. In this book, Diana Preston offers what may be the definitive account of the event and its aftermath. (2002)
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