Greater Gotham
A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919 (The History of NYC Series)
by Mike Wallace
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appears in About New York City, History, and Nonfiction.
In this utterly immersive volume, Mike Wallace captures the swings of prosperity and downturn, from the 1898 skyscraperdriven boom to the Bankers' Panic of 1907, the labor upheaval, and violent repression during and after the First World War. Here is New York on a whole new scale, moving from national to global prominence an urban dynamo driven...
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appears in About New York City, History, and Nonfiction.
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