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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro 9780394720241
Booksplease Price: $30.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Francis Parkman Prize 1975 and Pulitzer Prize 1975.Book InformationISBN 9780394720241Author Robert A. Caro
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro 9781847923653
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $29.33The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro is 'simply one of the best non-fiction books in English of the last forty years' (Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times): a riveting and timeless account of power,...
The Warsaw Ghetto Oyneg Shabes-Ringelblum Archive: Catalog and Guide by Robert Moses Shapiro
RRP: $92.88Booksplease Price: $78.05Retrieved after World War II from metal boxes and milk cans buried beneath the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto, the Oyneg Shabes-Ringelblum Archive was clandestinely compiled between 1940 and 1942 under...
Saving Fire Island from Robert Moses: The Fight for a National Seashore by Christopher Verga 9781467140348
Booksplease Price: $28.37Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.
Portal: San Francisco's Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities John King 9781324105237
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $18.21Conceived in the Gilded Age, the Ferry Building opened in 1898 as San Francisco's portal to the world-the terminus of the transcontinental railway and a showcase of civic ambition. In silent films...
Everyone is Watching by Megan Bradbury
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.95Beautiful, kaleidoscopic . . . everyone should be watching Megan Bradbury from now on' Eimear McBride, Baileys Prize-winning author of A Girl Is a Half-formed ThingNew York: A city that inspires. A...
New York. Portrait of a City by Reuel Golden 9783836505147
RRP: $77.40Booksplease Price: $59.65This book presents the epic story of New York on nearly 600 pages of emotional, atmospheric photographs, from the mid-19th century to the present day. Supplementing this treasure trove of images are...
Radical Equations by Charles E. Cobb
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $16.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Lillian Smith Book Awards (Lifetime Achievement) 2001.Book InformationISBN 9780807031278Author Robert Moses
Replays, Rivalries, and Rumbles: The Most Iconic Moments in American Sports by Steven Gietschier
Booksplease Price: $21.25What were the iconic sports moments of the last century? In Replays, Rivalries, and Rumbles , a team of sports aficionados climb onto their bar stools to address that never-solved but essential...
City of Dreams: Dodger Stadium and the Birth of Modern Los Angeles by Jerald Podair 9780691192796
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $21.31A vivid history of the controversial building of Dodger Stadium and how it helped transform Los AngelesWhen Walter O'Malley moved his Brooklyn Dodgers to Los Angeles in 1957 with plans to construct a...
Brooklyn: The Once and Future City by Thomas Campanella 9780691208619
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $20.39An unprecedented history of Brooklyn, told through its places, buildings, and the people who made them, from the early seventeenth century to todayAmerica's most storied urban underdog, Brooklyn has...
From Maryland to Cooperstown: Seven Maryland Natives in Baseballas Hall of Fame by Lois Nicholson 9780870334948
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $17.60Few people know that seven native-born Marylanders have earned a place in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. This collective biography chronicles the lives and careers of the state's baseball elite...
Often, Common, Some and Free by Samuel Amadon
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $17.98Poems considering ever-present transformations and resisting destruction. This is a book about transformation. Moving across varied formal and aesthetic terrains, these poems take on the subject of...
Becoming Andy Warhol Nick Bertozzi 9781419718762
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $17.42Celebrated during his lifetime as much for his personality as for his paintings, Andy Warhol (1928-1987) is the man who invented Pop Art, the notion of 15 minutes of fame, and the idea that an artist...
The Iroquois Struggle for Survival: World War II to Red Power by Laurence M. Hauptman 9780815623502
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.49From World War II onward, the Iroquois, one of the largest groups of Native Americans in North America, have confronted a series of crises threatening their continued existence.From the New...
Manhattan '45 by Jan Morris
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91In 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,...
Lodz Ghetto: A History by Isaiah Trunk
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.98In his comprehensive examination of the Lodz Ghetto, originally published in Yiddish in 1962, historian Isaiah Trunk sought to describe and explain the tragedy that befell the Jews imprisoned in the...
The Routes Not Taken: A Trip Through New York City's Unbuilt Subway System by Joseph B. Raskin 9780823253692
Booksplease Price: $82.95Robert A. Van Wyck, mayor of the greater city of New York, broke ground for the first subway line by City Hall on March 24, 1900. It took four years, six months, and twenty-three days to build the...
The Routes Not Taken: A Trip Through New York City's Unbuilt Subway System by Joseph B. Raskin 9780823267408
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $21.63Robert A. Van Wyck, mayor of the greater city of New York, broke ground for the first subway line by City Hall on March 24, 1900. It took four years, six months, and twenty-three days to build the...
Civil Rights in New York City: From World War II to the Giuliani Era by Clarence Taylor 9780823232895
Booksplease Price: $82.56Since the 1960s, most U.S. History has been written as if the civil rights movement were primarily or entirely a Southern history. This book joins a growing body of scholarship that demonstrates the...
Becoming Jane Jacobs by Peter L. Laurence
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $29.94Jane Jacobs is universally recognized as one of the key figures in American urbanism. The author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities, she uncovered the complex and intertwined physical and...
American Rascal: How Jay Gould Built Wall Street's Biggest Fortune by Greg Steinmetz 9781982107413
Booksplease Price: $20.16A gripping, "rollicking" (John Carreyrou, New York Times bestselling author of Bad Blood) biography of Jay Gould, the greatest of the 19th-century robber barons, whose brilliance, greed, and...
The Manhattan Project: A Theory of a City by David Kishik 9781503602779
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.25This sharp, witty study of a book never written, a sequel to Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project, is dedicated to New York City, capital of the twentieth century. A sui generis work of experimental...