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Manhattan '45 (Paperback, Main)
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Manhattan '45 (Paperback, Main)
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Loot Price R343
Discovery Miles 3 430
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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 of
triumph. In Manhattan '45, acclaimed travel writer and historian
Jan Morris evokes the city in all its romantic grandeur. From its
beguilingly idiosyncratic architectural style to its unmistakable
slang, post-War New York springs to life through Morris's brisk,
affectionate prose. Morris visits Wall Street, Harlem, Greenwich
Village, Chinatown, and the Lower East Side. She rides the
trollies, the El, the Hudson River ferries, and the Twentieth
Century Limited. She dines at Schrafft's and Le Pavillon, drinks
ale at McSorley's Saloon, sips Manhattans at the Manhattan Club,
and spots celebrities at El Morocco. She meets Fiorello La Guardia,
Robert Moses, Leo Durocher, I. B. Singer, and Dizzy Gillespie. And
she tours the tenements of Hell's Kitchen and the Gashouse
district, as well as the Foundling Hospital where the crushing
realities of poverty belie the unchallenged exuberance of the age.
Taking into account both Social Register and slum, Manhattan '45
celebrates New York's Golden Age as a place where, for one
unrepeatable moment in history, anything seemed possible.
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