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            Movies

            5 visitors recommend:
            Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Movies
            Source: Amazon
            Author: James Sanders
            City: New York, State: NY
            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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            Music

            3 visitors recommend:
            Molto Agitato: The Mayhem Behind the Music at the Metropolitan Opera
            Source: Amazon
            Author: Johanna Fiedler
            City: New York, State: NY
            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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            History

            6 visitors recommend:
            New York: An Illustrated History
            Source: Amazon
            Author: Ric Burns, James Sanders, and Lisa Ades
            City: New York, State: NY
            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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            5 visitors recommend:
            Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
            Source: Amazon
            Author: Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace
            City: New York, State: NY
            "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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            1 visitors recommend:
            The Empire State: A History of New York
            Source: Amazon
            Author: Milton M. Klein
            City: New York, State: NY
            (November 2001)
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            Urban History

            2 visitors recommend:
            Boston: A Topographical History
            Source: Amazon.com
            Author: Walter Muir Whitehill and Lawrence W. Kennedy
            City: Boston, State: MA
            From an Amazon reader: "This book is ideal for anyone looking for a general account of Boston history. It acquants one with many of the important stages in the development of the city; covering the period from the colonial to approximately 1970. The information regarding the colonial period is excellent, as is the book itself. It is not specific, but provides an introduction to many great way points for further study." (2000)
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            Family, Culture

            2 visitors recommend:
            Puritan Family Life: The Diary of Samuel Sewall
            Source: Amazon.com
            Author: Judith S. Graham (editor)
            City: Boston, State: MA
            From an Amazon reader: "A warm and engaging portrait of a Puritan family ... Popular readers may find the historiographical discussion tedious, but professional historians, local historians, and genealogists will appreciate Graham's painstaking research and common-sense assessment of Puritan parents' attitudes towards their children." (2000)
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            Nostalgia

            6 visitors recommend:
            The Bronx Lost, Found, and Remembered, 1935-1975
            Source: Amazon
            Author: Stephen M. Samtur and Martin A. Jackson
            City: New York, State: NY
            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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            Architecture

            1 visitors recommend:
            Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan
            Source: Amazon
            Author: Rem Koolhaas
            City: New York, State: NY
            "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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            0 visitors recommend:
            Empire: A Tale of Obsession, Betrayal, and the Battle for an American Icon
            Source: Amazon
            Author: Mitchell Pacelle
            City: New York, State: NY
            "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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            Crime, Crime Fighting

            2 visitors recommend:
            The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld
            Source: Amazon
            Author: Herbert Asbury and Luc Sante
            City: New York, State: NY
            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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            Merchant Marine, Fishing

            3 visitors recommend:
            In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
            Source: Amazon
            Author: Nathaniel Philbrick
            City: Cape Cod, State: MA
            From an Amazon reader: "Philbrick's book is 'off the charts' excellent ... [it provides] a view of the voyage preceding the incident and its aftermath, the whaling industry and Nantucket itself. The Quaker influence on the Nantucket whaling trade is an intriguing story in itself. This is a simply wonderful and well-written book. From the first chapter the reader gets the feeling of being swept up into a developing catastrophe. I only wish I still had this book yet to read. No wonder this story inspired one of the greatest American novels ever written; Moby Dick." (2001)
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            3 visitors recommend:
            The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex: A Narrative Account by Owen Chase, First Mate
            Source: Amazon
            Author: Owen Chase
            City: Cape Cod, State: MA
            On November 20, 1820, a sperm whale repeatedly rammed the whaleship Essex, causing her to sink. The 20-man crew were left in three small, open boats in the middle of the Pacific with little food and only 200 gallons of water. Bereft of charts, the boats sailed due east in the hopes of sighting land. Battered by storms, the boats became separated. Some 90 days later, a few men were rescued -- but not before they had been forced to make a terrible decision. (1821, 1999)
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            Archeology

            0 visitors recommend:
            In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early American Life
            Source: Amazon
            Author: James Deetz
            State: MA
            "An updated and expanded edition of a classic of modern archaeology gathers information about the daily life of the American colonists, including women and blacks, based on the analysis of domestic objects and architecture." --Ingram (1996)
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            Geology

            1 visitors recommend:
            Geology of New York: A Simplified Account
            Source: Amazon
            Author: Yngvar W. Isachsen (editor)
            City: New York, State: NY
            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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            Baseball

            4 visitors recommend:
            A Legend in the Making: The New York Yankees in 1939
            Source: Amazon
            Author: Richard J. Tofel
            City: New York, State: NY
            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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            2 visitors recommend:
            New York Yankees: Seasons of Glory
            Source: Amazon
            Author: William Hageman, Warren N. Wilbert, and Dan Schlossberg
            City: New York, State: NY
            "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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            1 visitors recommend:
            Red Sox Century
            Source: Amazon
            Author: Glenn Stout and Richard A. Johnson
            City: Boston, State: MA
            "The Boston Red Sox have always been New England's team, but the appeal of the franchise extends across the nation. So much of the game's history and so many of its memorable moments are associated with the Red Sox that to be a baseball fan at all is to identify with the team on some level. Stout, the series editor for Best American Sports Writing, and Johnson, the curator of the New England Sports Museum, have compiled a wondrous book that will enthrall baseball fans of all ages and team..." (2001)
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            Tallships

            2 visitors recommend:
            Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative
            Source: Amazon
            Author: Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
            City: Boston, State: MA
            From an Amazon reader: "After finishing this book, I am amazed that this book is not more prominent in famous literature. Much of US and sailing history can be learned through this true firsthand account of a Harvard student gone temporary salty dog. I am not from California or even the west coast but still found the stories contained throughout the book fascinating. Dana did an excellent job of describing the life at sea in the early 1800's without a moment of boring reading. I would recommend (and have been recommending) this book to anyone and everyone." (2000)
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            1 visitors recommend:
            The Making of a Sailor, or Sea Life Aboard a Yankee Square-Rigger
            Source: Amazon
            Author: Frederick Pease Harlow
            State: MA
            From an Amazon reader: "This is the best description of the hard life of an American sailor in the 1870s. Harlow, from New England, describes his first coastal voyage on a schooner, down the coast and up the Chesapeake and the Potomac. Then he tells of his long voyage to Australia on a square rigger. The book is fascinating and easy to read even if you don't fully understand all the nautical terms. It is well documented with sea chanteys, pictures and explanatory footnotes." (1988)
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            Travel

            3 visitors recommend:
            Main Streets & Back Roads of New England: The Best of Chronicle's Award-Winning WCVB-TV Series
            Source: Amazon
            Author: Susan Sloane and Chris Stirling
            City: Boston, State: MA
            A collection of stories on New England towns, from "Chronicle" on Boston's channel 5. (October 2001)
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