Product Description: A history of World War II-era New York documents the city's scientific and cultural contributions as well as its international post-war emergence as a pre-eminent region, describing the events that led to the establishment of the United Nations headquarters on the East River banks...read more

Product Description: In the Roaring Twenties, New York City nightclubs and speakeasies became hot spots where traditions were flouted and modernity was forged. With powerful patrons in Tammany Hall and a growing customer base, nightclubs flourished in spite of the efforts of civic-minded reformers and federal Prohibition enforcement...read more

A personal story about growing up in the public housing projects of East Harlem during the 1950s and 1960s follows the author's education at an exclusive white school, his friendships with African American and Puerto Rican neighbors, and his witness to the growing civil rights movement.

A kaleidoscopic study of 1977 New York City chronicles a year in the life of the metropolis through the lens of the Yankees, exploring issues of race and crime while examining the simultaneous battles between Reggie Jackson and Yankees' manager Billy Martin, and between Mario Cuomo and Ed Koch for mayorship of the city. Reissue. (An eight-part ESPN miniseries, releasing July 2007, starring John Turturro, Oliver Platt, & Daniel Sunjata) (History -- United States)

Chronicles a year in the life of New York City, gazing at the metropolis through the lens of the Yankees, exploring issues of race and crime and profiling Billy Martin, Reggie Jackson, Ed Koch, and Mario Cuomo, among others. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

A first nonfiction collection by the author of Peyton Amberg features her on-the-edge observations of New York City with such accounts as her experience at Andy Warhol's 1980s blind date club, her brief encounter with celebrity as a ZZ Top video extra, and her failure of an IQ test. Reprint.