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Item specifics

Condition
New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See the ...
Publication Date
1998-07-23
Pages
282
ISBN
9780801859571

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-10
0801859573
ISBN-13
9780801859571
eBay Product ID (ePID)
971632

Product Key Features

Book Title
Manhattan '45
Number of Pages
282 Pages
Language
English
Topic
United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), United States / General
Publication Year
1998
Features
Reprint
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History
Author
Jan Morris
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
12 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
98-012937
Reviews
""Accomplished with a surprising feeling of immediacy... Morris's unabashedly sentimental journey is narrated in a breezy, sometimes gushing style, yet maintains a high level of accuracy... There are intriguing bits of information and insight that spotlight aspects of the city we may have taken for granted... Manhattan '45 ... provides some food for thought, some fine writing, but mostly, just fun."", Vivid descriptions and diverting anecdotes of life make for a fascinating and enjoyable tour. Morris conveys the excitement of being in New York City as it awakens to a new age in a book that will absorb all lovers of Manhattan., Morris's rendition of the city's 1945 moods conveys what it felt like to live in New York at that time . . . A book crammed with details that bring life again to a city that glows in one's memory. -- New York Times Book Review, "A fine and fun bebop Baedeker through the Grandest of all Cities, New York, in its 1945 heyday..a valuable and thoroughly enjoyable journey."--Gregg Ottinger, American Studies International, A fine and fun bebop Baedeker through the Grandest of all Cities, New York, in its 1945 heyday..a valuable and thoroughly enjoyable journey., Morris's rendition of the city's 1945 moods conveys what it felt like to live in New York at that time . . . A book crammed with details that bring life again to a city that glows in one's memory., Vivid descriptions and diverting anecdotes of life make for a fascinating and enjoyable tour. Morris conveys the excitement of being in New York City as it awakens to a new age in a book that will absorb all lovers of Manhattan. -- Library Journal, Morris's rendition of the city's 1945 moods conveys what it felt like to live in New York at that time... A book crammed with details that bring life again to a city that glows in one's memory., Accomplished with a surprising feeling of immediacy . . . Morris's unabashedly sentimental journey is narrated in a breezy, sometimes gushing style, yet maintains a high level of accuracy . . . There are intriguing bits of information and insight that spotlight aspects of the city we may have taken for granted . . . Manhattan '45 . . . provides some food for thought, some fine writing, but mostly, just fun. -- Christian Science Monitor, Accomplished with a surprising feeling of immediacy... Morris's unabashedly sentimental journey is narrated in a breezy, sometimes gushing style, yet maintains a high level of accuracy... There are intriguing bits of information and insight that spotlight aspects of the city we may have taken for granted... Manhattan '45 ... provides some food for thought, some fine writing, but mostly, just fun., Accomplished with a surprising feeling of immediacy . . . Morris's unabashedly sentimental journey is narrated in a breezy, sometimes gushing style, yet maintains a high level of accuracy . . . There are intriguing bits of information and insight that spotlight aspects of the city we may have taken for granted . . . Manhattan '45 . . . provides some food for thought, some fine writing, but mostly, just fun., A fine and fun bebop Baedeker through the Grandest of all Cities, New York, in its 1945 heyday..a valuable and thoroughly enjoyable journey. --Gregg Ottinger, American Studies International, "A fine and fun bebop Baedeker through the Grandest of all Cities, New York, in its 1945 heyday..a valuable and thoroughly enjoyable journey." -- Gregg Ottinger, American Studies International
Edition Description
Reprint
Synopsis
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. In Manhattan '45 , acclaimed travel writer and historian Jan Morris ......, 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. In Manhattan '45 , acclaimed travel writer and historian Jan Morris evokes the city in all its romantic grandeur. From its beguilingly idiosyncratic architectural style to its unmistakable slang, post-War New York springs to life through Morris's brisk, affectionate prose. Morris visits Wall Street, Harlem, Greenwich Village, Chinatown, and the Lower East Side. She rides the trollies, the El, the Hudson River ferries, and the Twentieth Century Limited. She dines at Schrafft's and Le Pavillon, drinks ale at McSorley's Saloon, sips Manhattans at the Manhattan Club, and spots celebrities at El Morocco. She meets Fiorello La Guardia, Robert Moses, Leo Durocher, I. B. Singer, and Dizzy Gillespie. And she tours the tenements of Hell's Kitchen and the Gashouse district, as well as the Foundling Hospital where the crushing realities of poverty belie the unchallenged exuberance of the age. Taking into account both Social Register and slum, Manhattan '45 celebrates New York's Golden Age as a place where, for one unrepeatable moment in history, anything seemed possible.

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