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New York is a city like no other. Through the centuries, she’s been embraced and reviled, worshipped and feared, praised and battered—all the while standing at the crossroads of American politics, business, society, and culture. Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author Teresa Carpenter, a lifelong diary enthusiast, scoured the archives of libraries, historical societies, and private estates to assemble here an almost holographic view of this iconic metropolis. Starting on January 1 and traveling day by day through the year, these journal entries are selected from four centuries of writing—from the early 1600s to the present—allowing New York natives and visitors, writers and artists, thinkers and bloggers, to reach across time and share vivid and compelling snapshots of life in the Capital of the World.
“Today I arrived by train in New York City, which I’d never seen before, walked through the grandeur of Grand Central Terminal, stepped outside, got my first look at the city and instantly fell in love with it. Silently, inside myself, I yelled: I should have been born here!”—Edward Robb Ellis, May 22, 1947
“My experience is that a man cannot go anywhere in New York in an hour. The distances are too great—you must have another day to it. If you have got six things to do, you have got to take six days to do them in.”—Mark Twain, February 2, 1867
“A Peregrine falcon just flew past my window.”—Johnny/Quipu Blogspot, February 5, 2003
“I had a lot of dates but decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows.”—Andy Warhol, March 11, 1978
“At ten we have Orders to march up the River for Mount-Washington. Adieu, New-York; perhaps forever!”—Philip Vickers Fithian, September 3, 1776
New York Diaries reveals intimate, whimsical, profound, sobering, and indelible reflections on such historical moments as President Washington’s first State of the Union address, the death of Abraham Lincoln, the sinking of the Titanic, the end of World War II—even the first incursion of Europeans into the city’s Upper Bay on September 11, 1609, a presage to our country’s greatest catastrophe nearly four hundred years later. Featuring familiar faces and fascinating unknowns, these pages provide a rich mosaic that is uniquely New York.
With excerpts from the writing of Sherwood Anderson • William H. Bell • Albert Camus • Chad the Minx • Noël Coward • Dorothy Day • John Dos Passos • Thomas Edison • Allen Ginsberg • William B. Gould • Keith Haring • Henry Hudson • Anne Morrow Lindbergh • Judith Malina • H. L. Mencken • John Cameron Mitchell • Joyce Carol Oates • Eugene O’Neill • Philippe Petit • Edgar Allan Poe • Theodore Roosevelt • Elizabeth Cady Stanton • William Steinway • Alexis de Tocqueville • Mark Twain • Gertrude Vanderbilt • Andy Warhol • George Washington • Kurt Weill • Walt Whitman • and many others.
New York Diaries: 1609 to 2009 (Modern Library) Reviews
New York Diaries: 1609 to 2009 (Modern Library) Reviews
| 10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:  A Fabulous Treasure Hunt of Time, By This review is from: New York Diaries: 1609 to 2009 (Modern Library) (Hardcover) I still can't believe this book never existed before. It is the most perfect idea. First, I have to out myself as one of the people who helped fact-check the entries. But I would have loved this book regardless. Like every good diary it gives wonderful, intimate snapshots of everything from small personal moments (kissing in a darkened theatre) to world events (war and 9/11). Except in New York Diaries you are getting the best of four centuries worth of diarists (God I envy Teresa Carpenter's time researching this book).I'll be forever haunted by this one story that emerged in the diary of a pre-NYPD police inspector named William Bell. In accordance with the evil Fugitive Slave Act, which had only recently passed, Bell helped return Henry Long back to his "owner" in Virginia. A large group had gathered to prevent it, but Bell and 200 policemen did their terrible job and Long was put back into slavery. The book is laid out according to the calendar year,... Read more 5 of 5 people found the following review helpful: picked it up, couldn't put it down, This review is from: New York Diaries: 1609 to 2009 (Modern Library) (Hardcover) My copy belonged to my mother, but I started reading it while at her house, and borrowed it. Each day has several diary entries made by different people over the course of 400 years, so you develop favorite writers (sometimes famous, sometimes not) and learn about NYC at different times. Every time I read from it, something one of the diarists wrote will spark my interest (five points slums, doctor escaping from war prison during the revolutionary war, turn-of-the-century socialism, etc.), and I'll go research it. It's been endlessly entertaining and educational, and I look forward to reading more of it. 4 of 4 people found the following review helpful: History as it should be -- written by the people who were there, By This review is from: New York Diaries: 1609 to 2009 (Modern Library) (Hardcover) In the course of working on this book (I was one of the team of dedicated editors), I've had the opportunity to read it many times, and as with any work of art, each time I read it I find something new and fascinating, funny or heartbreaking. An artist (John Sloan) watches from his studio window while, across the alley, a baby dies in its mother's arms; a Holocaust survivor (Jonas Mekas) works a job that makes his fingers bleed, but still finds the energy to notice the beauty of girls on a summer night; an actress (Judith Malina) decides to seduce a writer and succeeds handily; Andy Warhol keeps manic track of every nickel he spends. People known and unknown whisper gossip into our ears--about Marlene Dietrich, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Nixon--and give voice to complaints that are still on our minds today: the corruption of Wall Street, the lack of jobs. With these diarists we attend parties, weddings, theaters, restaurants, battles, and deathbeds, and we are privy to their inmost... Read more |
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