City of Promise: A Novel of New York's Gilded Age

by Beverly Swerling

Book Overview

Beverly Swerling's critically acclaimed epic saga continues as New York emerges from the Civil War into the Gilded Age--a city marked by soaring expansion and teeming with unbridled ambition and dazzling glamour. It is 1864. The South's surrender is inevitable, and Manhattan is at the heart of the recovering nation's surge to prosperity. On its bustling streets crowds hustle from place to place amid a maelstrom of carriages and horse-drawn trolleys...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439136947
• ISBN13: 9781439136942
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.0"