In Pursuit of Gotham: Culture and Commerce in New York

by William R. Taylor

Book Overview

In every epoch, one great city has commanded attention through its ability to rise above material circumstances and express something new and original about its times. Athens, Rome, and Byzantium in antiquity, and Florence, Paris, and London in more recent times. New York is indisputably the capital of the early twentieth century.
William R. Taylor, one of America's most original and probing cultural historians, in this study of New York in the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195039041
• ISBN13: 9780195039047
• Release Date: May 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.5"