A History of New York in 27 Buildings: The 400-Year Untold Story of an American Metropolis
From the urban affairs correspondent of the New York Times--the story of a city through twenty-seven structures that define it. As New York is poised to celebrate its four hundredth anniversary, New York Times correspondent Sam Roberts tells the story of the city through bricks, glass, wood, and mortar, revealing why and how it evolved into the nation's biggest and most influential. From the seven hundred thousand or so buildings in New York, Roberts selects twenty-seven that, in the past four centuries, have been the most emblematic of the city's economic, social, and political evolution. He describes not only the buildings and how they c…
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- ISBN: 978-1-62040-980-0
- EAN: 9781620409800
- Produktnummer: 29558222
- Verlag: Bloomsbury
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
- Masse: H24.1 cm x B16.1 cm x D3.2 cm 560 g
- Gewicht: 560
Über den Autor
Sam Roberts is the Urban Affairs correspondent of the New York Times. He hosts The New York Times Close Up, which he inaugurated in 1992, and the podcasts Only in New York, anthologized in a book of the same name, and The Caucus. He is the author of A History of New York in 101 Objects and Grand Central: How a Train Station Transformed America, among others. He has written for the New York Times Magazine, the New Republic, and New York. He lives in New York with his wife and two sons.
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