Saving Central Park: A History and a Memoir

by Elizabeth Barlow Rogers

Book Overview

The story of how one woman's long love affair with New York's Central Park led her to organize its rescue from a state of serious decline, returning it to the beautiful place of recreational opportunity and spiritual sustenance that it is today.

Elizabeth Barlow Rogers opens with a quick survey of her early life--a middle-class upbringing in Texas; college at Wellesley, marriage, a master's degree in city planning at Yale. And then her...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1524733555
• ISBN13: 9781524733551
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"