Sam Roberts

Broschiertes Buch

The New Yorkers

31 Remarkable People, 400 Years, and the Untold Biography of the World's Greatest City

Beschreibung

From award-winning New York Times reporter Sam Roberts, the story of the world's most exceptional city, told through 31 little-known yet pivotal inhabitants who helped define it-now in paperback.

Autor

Sam Roberts, a 50-year veteran of New York journalism, is an obituaries reporter and formerly the Urban Affairs correspondent at 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 27 Buildings , 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, New York, Vanity Fair, and Foreign Affairs. A history adviser to Federal Hall, he lives in New York with his wife and two sons.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury USA
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 139mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 372g
• ISBN-13: 9781639733712
• ISBN-10: 163973371X
• Artikelnr.: 69798251

Rezensionen

An ingenious social history of Gotham rendered in deft profiles … [Roberts] is an ace at compact biography ... And he is an industrious researcher, mining fascinating nuggets—some profound, some just fun—from sources familiar and obscure … You're likely to finish the book with a new appreciation of the ingenuity, courage, guile and sacrifice that transformed the wooded wilderness Henry Hudson first explored into today's throbbing, perilous 21st-century metropolis.