New York's influence has stretched far beyond its city limits and into every corner of finance, art, and popular culture around the world. Created in collaboration with the Museum of the City of New York, this hands-on history concisely and entertainingly traces the city's evolution from pristine wilderness ...
Few cities make your heart race faster just by standing on their streets, but New York exerts an influence that stretches far beyond the city's limits. As Agatha Christie once said, "It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City, New York City is itself a detective story."
In Imagined London, Quindlen walks through the city, moving within blocks from the great books of the 19th century to the detective novels of the 20th to the new modernist tradition of the 21st
