Incredible New York: High Life and Low Life from 1850 to 1950 [Paperback]

Lloyd R. Morris (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 370 pages
• Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr (Sd); 1st Syracuse University Press ed edition (April 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0815603347
• ISBN-13: 978-0815603344
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,311,238 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible New York, Incredible Book, June 19, 2001

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rocco dormarunno (New York City) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Incredible New York: High Life and Low Life from 1850 to 1950 (Paperback)

Ignore the weak title; this is no I LOVE NEW YORK booster club travel guide. Written nearly half a century ago, this chronicle of the city's gutter life and gilded society will offer any new (or not so new) student to Gotham's history an informative and entertaining look back at what is arguably the most explosive 100 years in New York's history. This book deflates the charming gaslight and horse-and-buggy nostalgia that we associate with old New York but doesn't just dwell on the Plug-Ugliness of the slums either. What it does is give New York the contradictory and human voice the city's history deserves, and few books have done that since.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It's a helluva town!, October 13, 1997

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[e-mail] (Brooklyn, New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Incredible New York: High Life and Low Life from 1850 to 1950 (Paperback)

A book for anyone who has lived in, thought about or heard of New York. Wonderful details combine with solid prose to give the reader a real feel for New York as it grew up. Lots of pictures, too. I'll always think of Broadway and 14th Street as "Dead Man's Curve" now...

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible New York, Incredible Book, January 16, 2004

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Rocco Dormarunno (Brooklyn, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Incredible New York: High Life and Low Life from 1850 to 1950 (Paperback)

Ignore the weak title; this is no I LOVE NEW YORK booster club travel guide. Written nearly half a century ago, this chronicle of the city's gutter life and gilded society will offer any new (or not so new) student to Gotham's history an informative and entertaining look back at what is arguably the most explosive 100 years in New York's history. This book deflates the charming gaslight and horse-and-buggy nostalgia that we associate with old New York but doesn't just dwell on the Plug-Ugliness of the slums either. What it does is give New York the contradictory and human voice the city's history deserves, and few books have done that since.