Dimensions
153 x 234 x 53mm
New York: the world’s greatest city; the city that never sleeps; the city of opportunity; the gateway to America and freedom for the successive waves of immigrants who have landed on its shores; whose motto is Ever Upwards; a city whose skyscrapers touched the sky and then tragically fell to earth.
Edward Rutherfurd tells the story of this magical city as no other author could, through the interwoven tales of its populace, from its Seventeenth Century origins as a small trading post to the present where it is the centre of world business. The story of New York is also the story of its symbolic buildings and places: Wall Street, the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building, and the doomed Twin Towers.
And through the lens of New York he tells too the story of all of America: from its Indian Wars, the Revolution, the abolitionists, the mass immigrations from Ireland and Italy, the Civil War, to the coming of the railways and the expansion West, to the fortunes beyond the dreams of avarice that saw its buildings rise higher than any in the world before, to the turmoil of the World Wars and the tragedy of the terrorist attack of 9/11. In all this he never loses sight of the common man: the early English and Dutch traders, the slaves, the migrants, the politicians, society ladies, the whores and publicans, the soldiers, the artists and the financiers.
