LIBRARY NOTES
 
Mike Wallace
Literary New York
Tuesday, December 8, 1998 at 6:00 PM
Members' Room
To European explorers, Gotham was Eden, a paradise of waist-high grasses and forests. Today, it is the site of Broadway and Wall Street, the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty, the home of millions of people who have come from every corner of the nation and the globe to live in New York City.
Drawing upon his new book,
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898, written with Edwin G. Burrows, Professor Mike Wallace will explore the city's history but concentrate on such literary people as Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, and Horace Greeley. New York is a city that remains a literary center.
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