NYC BOOK AWARDS 1998
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
Edwin G. Burrows & Mike Wallace
"Like the city itself,
Gotham is a magnum opus, a multi-layered, wildly divergent, energetic, and rollicking adventure through New York, from its modest beginnings to its grandiose expansion in 1898.
Weighing in at seven-plus pounds, and twenty years in the making, Gotham is New York's definitive history. This first of two volumes skillfully fuses epic and minor themes, the words and deeds of disparate contemporaries, and minor themes, the words and deeds of disparate contemporaries, and the scholarship of myriad urban historians with the authors' own insightful and provocative views into a literate and celebratory tome."
- Barbara Cohen
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