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Life at the Dakota is a deliciously entertaining social history which describes the lives of the rich and trendy who have lived at the Dakota, a New York apartment house daringly erected in 1884, "too far up" and on the wrong side of town. In Stephen...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593534144Author Ric BurnsFormat HardbackPage Count 736Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400078677Author Russell ShortoFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 380gDimensions(mm) 201mm...

In 1945, New York City stood at the pinnacle of its cultural and economic power. Never again would the city possess the unique mixture of innocence and sophistication, romance and formality, generosity and confidence which characterized it in this moment...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250190437Author Ralph FriedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569755792Author Christopher HodappFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Ulysses PressPublisher Ulysses PressWeight(grams) 355g

On a winter's day in the mid-1970s the photographer Marcia Bricker Halperin sought warm refuge and, camera in hand, passed through the revolving doors of Dubrow's Cafeteria on Kings Highway. There, between the magical mirrored walls and steaming coffee...

Following in the footsteps of music history/biography texts such as the infamous Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk and Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto, From the Basement details the rise in popularity of rock in the...

Winner - 2023 John Brinkerhoff Jackson Book Prize, UVA Center for Cultural LandscapesWith more than eight hundred sprawling green acres in the middle of one of the world's densest cities, Central Park is an urban masterpiece. Designed in the middle of...

An award-winning historian and museum curator tells the story of his Jewish immigrant family by lovingly reconstructing its dramatic encounters with the memory-filled objects of ordinary life.At a pushcart stall in East New York, Brooklyn, in the spring...

An instant Number One New York Times bestseller, Humans of New York began in the summer of 2010, when photographer Brandon Stanton set out on an ambitious project: to single-handedly create a photographic census of New York City. Armed with his camera,...

St. Marks Place in New York City has spawned countless artistic and political movements. Here Frank O'Hara caroused, Emma Goldman plotted and the Velvet Underground wailed. Ada Calhoun tells the "Fascinating" (Village Voice) many-layered history of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452288584Author Justin KaplanFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626195295Author Alison FortierFormat PaperbackPage Count 235Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250098061Author Dr Eric HombergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Saint Martin's Griffin,U.S.Publisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams)...

Enslaved mariners, white seamstresses, Irish dockhands, free black domestic servants, and native-born street sweepers all navigated the low-end labor market in post-Revolutionary Baltimore. Seth Rockman considers this diverse workforce, exploring how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593328088Author Laurence LeamerFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint G P Putnam's SonsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 550gDimensions(mm) 235mm *...

On May 8, 1977, at Barton Hall, on the Cornell University campus, in front of 8,500 eager fans, the Grateful Dead played a show so significant that the Library of Congress inducted it into the National Recording Registry. The band had just released...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143034940Author Charlie LeDuffFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 352gDimensions(mm) 214mm * 138mm...

In this utterly immersive volume, Mike Wallace captures the swings of prosperity and downturn, from the 1898 skyscraper-driven boom to the Bankers' Panic of 1907, the labor upheaval, and violent repression during and after the First World War. Here is...

Gilded Age Americans lived cheek-by-jowl with free range animals. Cities and towns teemed with milk cows in dark tenement alleys, pigs rooting through garbage in the streets, geese and chickens harried by the packs of stray dogs that roamed the 19th...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307386717Author David OshinskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061723742Author Anthony Haden-GuestFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 503gDimensions(mm)...

Puritan Family and Community in the English Atlantic World examines the dynamics of marriage, family and community life during the "Great Migration" through the microhistorical study of one puritan family in 1638 Rhode Island.Through studying the Verin...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467125116Author Rick GeffkenFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 235mm *...

Relying primarily on a narrative, chronological approach, this study examines Ku Klux Klan activities in Pennsylvania's twenty-five western-most counties, where the state organization enjoyed greatest numerical strength. The work covers the period...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781335449320Author Jesse RifkinFormat HardbackPage Count 544Imprint Hanover Square PressPublisher Hanover Square PressWeight(grams) 621gDimensions(mm) 235mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541730397Author Gus Garcia-RobertsFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint PublicAffairsPublisher PublicAffairsWeight(grams) 717gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 160mm...

With a foreword by the Honorable Ras J. Baraka, 40th Mayor of Newark, NJ, The War Is Here is Life magazine photographer Bud Lee's dramatic, empathetic, and still shocking record of the Newark uprising of 1967-a pivotal moment in a summer of protest and...

Washington, D.C. can be an overwhelming destination for visitors. With so many museums, so many historic sights, so many working government buildings to see not to mention its scintillating foodie and nightlife scenes just coming up with a plan can be...

This is the story of a group of women whose experiments in art and life set the tone for the rise of New York as the twentieth century's capital of modern culture. Across the 1910s and '20s, through provocative creative acts, shocking fashion, political...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrates 150 years by presenting its evolution into one of the world's greatest museums and its vision for the future Published to celebrate the Museum's 150th anniversary, Making The Met examines the institution's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593234617Author New York TimesFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540226747Author David GaylinFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint Arcadia Publishing Library EditionsPublisher Arcadia Publishing Library...

There seems to be no end to our fascination with the Amish, a religious minority that has both placed itself outside the mainstream of American culture and flourished within it. Yet most people know very little about the nuanced relationship the Amish...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596299979Author George JoynsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

In the 1970s, Manhattan's west side waterfront was a forgotten zone of abandoned warehouses and piers. Though many saw only blight, the derelict neighborhood was alive with queer people forging new intimacies through cruising. Alongside the piers' sexual...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438490861Author Dick WeissmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Excelsior EditionsPublisher State University of New York PressWeight(grams)...

In 1970s New York City, the abandoned piers of the Hudson River became a site for extraordinary works of art and a popular place for nude sunbathing and anonymous sex. Jonathan Weinberg's provocative book-part art history, part memoir-weaves interviews,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983237020Author Benjamin J LuftFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Greenpoint PressPublisher Greenpoint PressWeight(grams) 481gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...