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About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Madeby Ben YagodaISBN 0306810239 (0-306-81023-9)
Softcover, Da Capo Pr
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The Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation: Street Politics and the Transformation of a New York City Gangby Luis Barrios, David C. BrothertonISBN 0231114192 (0-231-11419-2)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Arguing the World: The New York Intellectuals in Their Own Wordsby Joseph DormanISBN 0226158144 (0-226-15814-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arguing the World: The New York Intellectuals in Their Own Words'Book summary:Joseph Dorman's film Arguing the World won New York Magazine's Best New York Documentary award in 1999 as well as the Peabody Award in 1999. His work has also appeared on The Discovery Channel, CBS, and CNN, and has been nominated for two Emmy Awards.[via]
Joseph Dorman's acclaimed documentary, Arguing the World, included stunning interviews with Irving Howe, Daniel Bell, Irving Kristol, and Nathan Glazer. Now with a new preface, Dorman converted the film into this book that includes an overview of the New York Intellectuals and a chapter on the future of the public intellectual. Expertly spliced together from the film and new material, this book gives the sense that these men are still engaged in their fiery debates that targeted everything from the Depression to McCarthyism to the rise of the New Left through the Age of Reagan.More editions of Arguing the World: The New York Intellectuals in Their Own Words:
Beat Punksby Victor BockrisISBN 0306809397 (0-306-80939-7)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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Beautiful Liesby Lisa UngerISBN 0307336824 (0-307-33682-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beautiful Lies'Book summary:If Ridley Jones had slept ten minutes later or had taken the subway instead of waiting for a cab, she would still be living the beautiful lie she used to call her life. She would still be the privileged daughter of a doting father and a loving mother. Her life would still be perfectwith only the tiny cracks of an angry junkie for a brother and a charming drunk with shady underworld connections for an uncle to mar the otherwise flawless whole.
But thats not what happened. Instead, those inconsequential decisions lead her to perform a good deed that puts her in the right place at the right time to unleash a chain of events that brings a mysterious package to her doora package which informs her that her entire world is a lie.
Suddenly forced to question everything she knows about herself and her family, Ridley wanders into dark territory she never knew existed, where everyone in her life seems like a stranger. She has no idea whos on her side and who has something to hideeven, and maybe especially, her new lover, Jake, who appears to have secrets of his own.
Sexy and fast-paced, Beautiful Lies is a true literary thriller with one of the freshest voices and heroines to arrive in years. Lisa Unger takes us on a breathtaking ride in which every choice Ridley makes creates a whirlwind of consequences that are impossible to imagine . . . .
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The Birth of Empire: Dewitt Clinton and the American Experience, 1769-1828by Evan CornogISBN 0195119495 (0-19-511949-5)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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The Bookworm's Big Apple: A Guide to Manhattan's Booksellersby Susan Paula BarileISBN 0231084951 (0-231-08495-1)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoirby Paul MonetteISBN 0156005816 (0-15-600581-6)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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The City in Slang: New York Life and Popular Speechby Irving Lewis AllenISBN 0195092651 (0-19-509265-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860by Christine StansellISBN 0252014812 (0-252-01481-2)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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City Reading: Written Words and Public Spaces in Antebellum New Yorkby David M. HenkinISBN 0231107455 (0-231-10745-5)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Classic Fiction of the Harlem Renaissanceby William L. AndrewsISBN 019508196X (0-19-508196-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Cloisters: Medieval Art And Architectureby Nancy Y. Wu, Peter BarnetISBN 0300111428 (0-300-11142-8)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Colony That Rose from the Sea: Norwegian Maritime Migration and Community in Brooklyn, 1850-1910by David C. MaukISBN 0252024001 (0-252-02400-1)
Hardcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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The Company She Keepsby Mary McCarthyISBN 0156027860 (0-15-602786-0)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Company She Keeps'Book summary:This is the authors first novel, which relates the experiences of a young bohemian intellectual. The six episodes create a fascinating portrait of a New York social circle of the 1930s. McCarthys bold insight and virtuoso style won her immediate recognition as one of the most accomplished, versatile, and penetrating writers in americanca.[via]More editions of The Company She Keeps:
Concrete and Clay: Reworking Nature in New York Cityby Matthew GandyISBN 0262572168 (0-262-57216-8)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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Country, Park & City: The Architecture and Life of Calvert Vauxby Francis R. KowskyISBN 0195171136 (0-19-517113-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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Deep Wizardryby Diane DuaneISBN 0152049428 (0-15-204942-8)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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The Duchess of Bloomsbury Streetby Helene HanffISBN 0233965092 (0-233-96509-2)
Hardcover, Deutsch
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The Eight Million: Journal of a New York Correspondentby Meyer BergerISBN 0231057113 (0-231-05711-3)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Empire City: New York Through The Centuriesby Kenneth T. Jackson, David S. DunbarISBN 0231109083 (0-231-10908-3)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Fifth Avenue: A Very Social Historyby Kate SimonISBN 015630712X (0-15-630712-X)
Softcover, Harcourt
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First Intermissions: Twenty-One Great Operas Explored, Explained, and Brought to Life from the Metby M. Owen LeeISBN 0195106490 (0-19-510649-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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Fresh Wind Fresh Fireby Jim CymbalaISBN 0310251532 (0-310-25153-2)
Softcover, Zondervan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fresh Wind Fresh Fire'Book summary:As though blowing oxygen upon the dying embers of a fire, pastor Jim Cymbala revived a broken-down church in a rough-shod inner-city neighborhood through Christian faith. Twenty-five years ago, the Brooklyn Tabernacle could barely draw 26 people to a Sunday service. Nowadays the congregation is 6,000 strong--filled with converted prostitutes, pimps, drug addicts, and homeless people, as well as yuppies and wholesome families. Although he's quick to give God credit for this miraculous success story, Cymbala admits that there may be a few human decisions that led to this Christian triumph. Most significantly, he made sure his church community embraced everyone, from all walks of life--no matter how distasteful or foreign. "Christians often hesitate to reach out to those who are different," according to Cymbala. "They want God to clean the fish before they catch them. If someone's gold ring is attached to an unusual body part, if the person doesn't smell the best or the skin color is not the same, Christians tend to hesitate." Thus, Cymbala encouraged his congregation to adopt the very same tolerant and accepting attitude as their God does. The results? Let's just say a church thrives in Brooklyn. Accomplished cowriter Dean Merrill helps this tender true story stay satisfying and highly readable. --Gail Hudson [via]
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Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Heart of His Peopleby Jim Cymbala, Dean MerrillISBN 0310211883 (0-310-21188-3)
Hardcover, Zondervan
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From the Ground Up: Observations on Contemporary Architecture, Housing, Highway Building, and Civic Designby L. MumfordISBN 0156340194 (0-15-634019-4)
Softcover, Harcourt
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A Gay Synagogue in New Yorkby Moshe ShokeidISBN 0231084617 (0-231-08461-7)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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The Golden Door: Italian And Jewish Immigrant Mobility in New York Cityby Thomas KessnerISBN 0195021614 (0-19-502161-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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Gore Vidal: Writer Against the Grainby Jay PariniISBN 0231072090 (0-231-07209-0)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898by Mike Wallace, Edwin G. BurrowsISBN 0195116348 (0-19-511634-8)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898'Book summary:Like the city it celebrates, Gotham is massive and endlessly fascinating. This narrative of well over 1,000 pages, written after more than two decades of collaborative research by history professors Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace, 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." The sheer bulk of the book may be off- putting, but the reader can use a typically New York approach: Those who don't settle in for the entire history can easily "commute" in and out to read individual chapters, which stand alone nicely and cover the major themes of particular eras very well.
While Gotham is fact-laden (with a critical apparatus that includes a bibliography and two indices--one for names, another for subjects), the prose admirably achieves both clarity and style. "What is our take, our angle, our schtick?" ask the authors, setting a distinctly New York tone in their introduction. No matter what it's called, their method of weaving together countless stories works wonderfully. The startlingly detailed research and lively writing bring innumerable characters (from Peter Minuit to Boss Tweed) to life, and even those who think they know the history of New York City will no doubt find surprises on nearly every page. Gotham is a rarity, reigning as both authoritative history and page-turning story. --Robert McNamara [via]
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The Great Port: A Passage Through New Yorkby Jan MorrisISBN 0195035763 (0-19-503576-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Womanby Nora EphronISBN 0307276821 (0-307-27682-1)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman'Book summary:With her disarming, intimate, completely accessible voice, and dry sense of humor, Nora Ephron shares with us her ups and downs in I Feel Bad About My Neck, a candid, hilarious look at women who are getting older and dealing with the tribulations of maintenance, menopause, empty nests, and life itself.The woman who brought us When Harry Met Sally . . . , Sleepless in Seattle, You've Got Mail, and Bewitched, and the author of best sellers Heartburn, Scribble Scribble, and Crazy Salad, discusses everything-from how much she hates her purse to how much time she spends attempting to stop the clock: the hair dye, the treadmill, the lotions and creams that promise to slow the aging process but never do. Oh, and she can't stand the way her neck looks. But her dermatologist tells her there's no quick fix for that.Ephron chronicles her life as an obsessed cook, passionate city dweller, and hapless parent. She recounts her anything-but-glamorous days as a White House intern during the JFK years ("I am probably the only young woman who ever worked in the Kennedy White House that the President did not make a pass at") and shares how she fell in and out of love with Bill Clinton-from a distance, of course. But mostly she speaks frankly and uproariously about life as a woman of a certain age.Utterly courageous, wickedly funny, and unexpectedly moving in its truth telling, I Feel Bad About My Neck is a book of wisdom, advice, and laugh-out-loud moments, a scrumptious, irresistible treat. [via]
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The Immigrant Church: New York's Irish and German Catholics, 1815-1865by Jay P. DolanISBN 0268011516 (0-268-01151-6)
Softcover, Univ of Notre Dame Pr
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In Search of Gotham: Essays on the Commerce and Culture of New Yorkby William Robert TaylorISBN 0195037480 (0-19-503748-0)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Interzones: Black/White Sex Districts in Chicago and New York in the Early Twentieth Centuryby Kevin J. MumfordISBN 0231104936 (0-231-10493-6)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Invented Cities: The Creation of Landscape in Nineteenth-Century New York & Bostonby Mona DomoshISBN 0300074913 (0-300-07491-3)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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It Happened in Brooklyn: An Oral History of Growing up in the Borough in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960sby Harvey Frommer, Myrna K. FrommerISBN 015600237X (0-15-600237-X)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Joe Papp: An American Lifeby Helen EpsteinISBN 0306806762 (0-306-80676-2)
Softcover, Da Capo Pr
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Letty Foxby Christina SteadISBN 0207130868 (0-207-13086-8)
Hardcover, Angus and Robertson
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Letty Fox, Her Luckby Christina SteadISBN 0156508850 (0-15-650885-0)
Hardcover, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich
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Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridgeby Hildegarde Hoyt Swift, Lynd WardISBN 0152045732 (0-15-204573-2)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridgeby Lynd Ward, Hildegarde Hoyt SwiftISBN 0152045716 (0-15-204571-6)
Hardcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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Love, Amy: The Selected Letters Of Amy Clampittby Amy Clampitt, Willard SpiegelmanISBN 0231132867 (0-231-13286-7)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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The Madonna of 115th Street: Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 1880-1950by Robert A. OrsiISBN 0300091354 (0-300-09135-4)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Many Are Calledby Walker Evans, Rosenheim, Jeff L. (AFT), Luc Sante, James AgeeISBN 0300106173 (0-300-10617-3)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Many Are Called'Book summary:[via]Between 1936 and 1941 Walker Evans and James Agee collaborated on one of the most provocative books in American literature, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941). While at work on this book, the two also conceived another less well-known but equally important book project entitled Many Are Called. This three-year photographic study of subway passengers made with a hidden camera was first published in 1966, with an introduction written by Agee in 1940. Long out of print, Many Are Called is now being reissued with a new foreword and afterword and with exquisitely reproduced images from newly prepared digital scans.
Many Are Called came to fruition at a slow pace. In 1938, Walker Evans began surreptitiously photographing people on the New York City subway. With his camera hidden in his coatthe lens peeking through a buttonholehe captured the faces of riders hurtling through the dark tunnels, wrapped in their own private thoughts. By 1940-41, Evans had made over six hundred photographs and had begun to edit the series. The book remained unpublished until 1966 when The Museum of Modern Art mounted an exhibition of Evanss subway portraits.
This beautiful new editionpublished in the centenary year of the NYC subwayis an essential book for all admirers of Evanss unparalleled photographs, Agees elegant prose, and the great City of New York.
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The Mayor of Macdougal Street: A Memoirby Elijah Wald, Dave Van Ronk, Lawrence BlockISBN 030681479X (0-306-81479-X)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Miracle On 34th Streetby Valentine DaviesISBN 0152163778 (0-15-216377-8)
Hardcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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Mrs. Astor's New York: Money and Social Power in a Gilded Ageby Eric HombergerISBN 0300105150 (0-300-10515-0)
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The Mysterious Death of Mary Rogers: Sex and Culture in Nineteenth-Century New Yorkby Amy Gilman SrebnickISBN 0195113926 (0-19-511392-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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New Immigrants in New Yorkby Nancy FonerISBN 0231124155 (0-231-12415-5)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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The New Metropolis: New York City, 1840-1857by Edward SpannISBN 0231050852 (0-231-05085-2)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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New York City Draft Riots: Their Significance for American Society and Politics in the Age of the Civil Warby Iver BernsteinISBN 0195071301 (0-19-507130-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'New York City Draft Riots: Their Significance for American Society and Politics in the Age of the Civil War'Book summary:For five days in July 1863, at the height of the Civil War, New York City was under siege. Angry rioters burned draft offices, closed factories, destroyed railroad tracks and telegraph lines, and hunted policemen and soldiers. Before long, the rioters turned their murderous wrath against the black community. In the end, at least 105 people were killed, making the draft riots the most violent insurrection in American history.
In this vividly written book, Iver Bernstein tells the compelling story of the New York City draft riots. He details how what began as a demonstration against the first federal draft soon expanded into a sweeping assault against the local institutions and personnel of Abraham Lincoln's Republican Party as well as a grotesque race riot. Bernstein identifies participants, dynamics, causes and consequences, and demonstrates that the "winners" and "losers" of the July 1863 crisis were anything but clear, even after five regiments rushed north from Gettysburg restored order. In a tour de force of historical detection, Bernstein shows that to evaluate the significance of the riots we must enter the minds and experiences of a cast of characters--Irish and German immigrant workers, Wall Street businessmen who frantically debated whether to declare martial law, nervous politicians in Washington and at City Hall. Along the way, he offers new perspectives on a wide range of topics: Civil War society and politics, patterns of race, ethnic and class relations, the rise of organized labor, styles of leadership, philanthropy and reform, strains of individualism, and the rise of machine politics in Boss Tweed's Tammany regime.
An in-depth study of one of the most troubling and least understood crises in American history, The New York City Draft Riots is the first book to reveal the broader political and historical context--the complex of social, cultural and political relations--that made the bloody events of July 1863 possible. [via]More editions of New York City Draft Riots: Their Significance for American Society and Politics in the Age of the Civil War:
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Nothing to Fearby Jackie French KollerISBN 0152575820 (0-15-257582-0)
Softcover, Gulliver Books
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Oh, Play That Thingby Roddy DoyleISBN 0224074431 (0-224-07443-1)
Softcover, Jonathan Cape
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Partisans: Marriage, Politics, and Betrayal Among the New York Intellectualsby David LaskinISBN 0226468933 (0-226-46893-3)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Playful Crowd: Pleasure Places In The Twentieth Centuryby John K. Walton, Gary S. CrossISBN 0231127243 (0-231-12724-3)
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Poverty in New York, 1783-1825by Raymond A. MohlISBN 0195013670 (0-19-501367-0)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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Rivington Streetby Meredith TaxISBN 0252070321 (0-252-07032-1)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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Scenes from the Life of a City: Corruption and Conscience Old New Yorkby Eric HombergerISBN 0300068824 (0-300-06882-4)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Send Me Down a Miracleby Han NolanISBN 0152046801 (0-15-204680-1)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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Sister Carrieby Theodore Dreiser, Lee Clark MitchellISBN 0192835742 (0-19-283574-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sister Carrie'Book summary:Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser's revolutionary first novel, was published in 1900--sort of. The story of Carrie Meeber, an 18-year-old country girl who moves to Chicago and becomes a kept woman, was strong stuff at the turn of the century, and what Dreiser's wary publisher released was a highly expurgated version. Times change, and we now have a restored "author's cut" of Sister Carrie that shows how truly ahead of his time Dreiser was. First and foremost, he has written an astute, nonmoralizing account of a woman and her limited options in late-19th-century America. That's impressive in and of itself, but Dreiser doesn't stop there. Digging deeply into the psychological underpinnings of his characters, he gives us people who are often strangers to themselves, drifting numbly until fate pushes them on a path they can later neither defend nor even remember choosing.
Dreiser's story unfolds in the measured cadences of an earlier era. This sometimes works brilliantly as we follow the choices, small and large, that lead some characters to doom and others to glory. On the other hand, the middle chapters--of which there are many--do drag somewhat, even when one appreciates Dreiser's intentions. If you can make it through the sagging midsection, however, you'll be rewarded by Sister Carrie's last 150 pages, which depict the harrowing downward spiral of one of the book's central characters. Here Dreiser portrays with brutal power how the wrong decision--or lack of decision--can lay waste to a life. --Rebecca Gleason [via]
Sitaby Kate MillettISBN 0252068874 (0-252-06887-4)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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Steppin' Out: New York Nightlife and the Transformation of American Culture, 1890-1930by Lewis A. ErenbergISBN 0226215156 (0-226-21515-6)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Tenants of Moonbloomby Edward Lewis WallantISBN 0156885352 (0-15-688535-2)
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Touring Gotham's Archaeological Past: 8 Self-Guided Walking Tours Through New York Cityby Anne-Marie E. Cantwell, Diana Dizerega WallISBN 0300103883 (0-300-10388-3)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Union Squareby Meredith TaxISBN 0252070313 (0-252-07031-3)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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A Walk Through the Cloistersby Bonnie Young, Malcolm VaronISBN 0300107846 (0-300-10784-6)
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Washington Squareby Henry JamesISBN 0192835181 (0-19-283518-1)
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When We Were Saintsby Han NolanISBN 0152053220 (0-15-205322-0)
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Who Governs? Democracy and Power in an American Cityby Robert Alan DahlISBN 0300000510 (0-300-00051-0)
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Who Governs?: Democracy And Power In An American Cityby Robert Dahl, Douglas W. RaeISBN 0300103921 (0-300-10392-1)
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Writing Dangerously : Mary McCarthy and Her Worldby Carol BrightmanISBN 0156000679 (0-15-600067-9)
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Las Rubias De 5th Avenue / Bergdorf Blondesby Plum Sykes, Toni HillISBN 0307273903 (0-307-27390-3)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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