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Thirty-five years after this landmark of urban history first captured the rise, fall, and rebirth of a once-thriving New York City borough-ravaged in the 1970s and '80s by disinvestment and fires, then heroically revived and rebuilt in the 1990s by community activists-Jill Jonnes returns to chronicle the ongoing revival of the South Bronx. Though now globally renowned as the birthplace of hip-hop, the South Bronx remains America's poorest urban congressional district. In this new edition, we meet the present generation of activists who are transforming their communities with the arts and greening, notably the restoration of the Bronx River. For better or worse, real estate investors have noticed, setting off new gentrification struggles.
In the final decades of the nineteenth century, three brilliant and
visionary titans of America's Gilded Age--Thomas Edison, Nikola
Tesla, and George Westinghouse--battled bitterly as each vied to
create a vast and powerful electrical empire. In "Empires of
Light," historian Jill Jonnes portrays this extraordinary trio and
their riveting and ruthless world of cutting-edge science,
invention, intrigue, money, death, and hard-eyed Wall Street
millionaires. At the heart of the story are Thomas Alva Edison, the
nation's most famous and folksy inventor, creator of the
incandescent light bulb and mastermind of the world's first direct
current electrical light networks; the Serbian wizard of invention
Nikola Tesla, elegant, highly eccentric, a dreamer who
revolutionized the generation and delivery of electricity; and the
charismatic George Westinghouse, Pittsburgh inventor and tough
corporate entrepreneur, an industrial idealist who in the era of
gaslight imagined a world powered by cheap and plentiful
electricity and worked heart and soul to create it. "From the Hardcover edition."
The story of the world-famous monument and the extraordinary
world's fair that introduced it
"Superb. [A] first-rate narrative" (The Wall Street Journal) about the controversial construction of New York's beloved original Penn Station and its tunnels, from the author of Eiffel's Tower and Urban Forests As bestselling books like Ron Chernow's Titan and David McCullough's The Great Bridge affirm, readers are fascinated with the grand personalities and schemes that populated New York at the close of the nineteenth century. Conquering Gotham re- creates the riveting struggle waged by the great Pennsylvania Railroad to build Penn Station and the monumental system of tunnels that would connect water-bound Manhattan to the rest of the continent by rail. Historian Jill Jonnes tells a ravishing tale of snarling plutocrats, engineering feats, and backroom politicking packed with the most colorful figures of Gilded Age New York. Conquering Gotham will be featured in an upcoming episdoe of PBS's American Experience.
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