Download or read book New York written by Ric Burns and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 849 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expanded edition of the only comprehensive illustrated history of New York—with more than 600 ravishing photographs and illustrations—that tells the remarkable 400-year-long story of the city from its beginning in 1624 up to the current moment. The companion volume to the acclaimed PBS series. This landmark book traces the spectacular growth of New York from its initial settlement on the tip of Manhattan through the destruction wrought by the Revolutionary War to its rise as the nation’s premier commercial capital and industrial center and as a magnet for immigrant hopes and dreams in the 19th century to its standing as a beacon of modern culture in the 20th century and as a worldwide symbol of resilience in the 21st century. The story continues here with new chapters delivering a sweeping portrait of New York at the dawn of the 21st century, when it emerged after decades of decline to assert its place at the very center of a new globalized culture. Here is a city challenged—indeed, sometimes shaken to its core—by a series of profound crises: the aftermath of 9/11, the continual struggle with racial injustice, the financial crisis of 2008, the devastation of Superstorm Sandy, the still unfolding cataclysm of the COVID-19 pandemic—whose earliest and deadliest urban epicenter was New York itself. Here too is a lively portrait of the city’s vibrant street life and culture: the birth of hip-hop in the South Bronx, Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Gates in Central Park, the musicals of Broadway, the explosion in location filmmaking in every borough, the pivotal rise of the tech industry, and so much more. The history of this city—especially in the tumultuous and transformative two decades detailed in the new chapters—is an epic story of rebirth and growth, an astonishing transfiguration, still in progress, of the world’s first modern city into a model and prototype for the global city of the future.
Download or read book City of Eros written by Timothy J. Gilfoyle and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1994 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Allan Nevins Prize of the Society of American Historians and the New York State Historical Association Manuscript Prize.
Download or read book Ragged Company written by Richard Wagamese and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four chronically homeless people–Amelia One Sky, Timber, Double Dick and Digger–seek refuge in a warm movie theatre when a severe Arctic Front descends on the city. During what is supposed to be a one-time event, this temporary refuge transfixes them. They fall in love with this new world, and once the weather clears, continue their trips to the cinema. On one of these outings they meet Granite, a jaded and lonely journalist who has turned his back on writing “the same story over and over again” in favour of the escapist qualities of film, and an unlikely friendship is struck. A found cigarette package (contents: some unsmoked cigarettes, three $20 bills, and a lottery ticket) changes the fortune of this struggling set. The ragged company discovers they have won $13.5 million, but none of them can claim the money for lack proper identification. Enlisting the help of Granite, their lives, and fortunes, become forever changed. Ragged Company is a journey into both the future and the past. Richard Wagamese deftly explores the nature of the comforts these friends find in their ideas of “home,” as he reconnects them to their histories.
Download or read book Shine written by Roger Anderson and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An original musical comedy based on characters and situations found in the works of Horatio Alger"--Page 7
Download or read book Harpo Speaks about New York written by Harpo Marx and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before vaudeville, Broadway, and the silver screen, Harpo Marx had triumphed on the greatest stage of all: New York City. For a kid on the streets in 1902, every day demanded wit and improvisation. Beyond the door of the tenement at 179 East 93rd Street lay rival gangs, lucky breaks, failed hustles. While his mother, Minnie, was occupied elsewhere—planning her unruly brood’s ultimate destiny—Harpo roamed the streets doing what any self-respecting second-grade dropout would: grabbing the family’s one left-foot skate and heading to Central Park, preparing for the bonfires of a Tammany election night, and hopping on the El to watch “the Gods in Valhalla—which is to say, the New York Giants in the Polo Grounds.” With an unforgettable cast of characters, and set against turn-of-the-century Manhattan, Harpo Speaks . . . About New York overflows with the optimism and sweetness of the kid who, on the off-chance that “Sandy Claus” just might remember him, never forgot to hang his stocking in the airshaft on Christmas Eve.
Download or read book Why Poetry written by Matthew Zapruder and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An impassioned call for a return to reading poetry and an incisive argument for poetry’s accessibility to all readers, by critically acclaimed poet Matthew Zapruder In Why Poetry, award-winning poet Matthew Zapruder takes on what it is that poetry—and poetry alone—can do. Zapruder argues that the way we have been taught to read poetry is the very thing that prevents us from enjoying it. In lively, lilting prose, he shows us how that misunderstanding interferes with our direct experience of poetry and creates the sense of confusion or inadequacy that many of us feel when faced with it. Zapruder explores what poems are, and how we can read them, so that we can, as Whitman wrote, “possess the origin of all poems,” without the aid of any teacher or expert. Most important, he asks how reading poetry can help us to lead our lives with greater meaning and purpose. Anchored in poetic analysis and steered through Zapruder’s personal experience of coming to the form, Why Poetry is engaging and conversational, even as it makes a passionate argument for the necessity of poetry in an age when information is constantly being mistaken for knowledge. While he provides a simple reading method for approaching poems and illuminates concepts like associative movement, metaphor, and negative capability, Zapruder explicitly confronts the obstacles that readers face when they encounter poetry to show us that poetry can be read, and enjoyed, by anyone.
Download or read book Fame And Fortune Or The Progress Of Richard Hunter written by Horatio Alger and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-07 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fame and Fortune is a 19th-century American rags-to-riches novel by Horatio Alger, Jr. The story follows Richard Hunter, a young boy who comes to New York City from the country with nothing but a few dollars in his pocket. Richard is determined to make something of himself, and he soon finds work as a bootblack. Through hard work and determination, Richard eventually becomes a successful businessman. Along the way, he learns the value of honesty, integrity, and compassion. The novel is a classic American story of hope and opportunity. It is a reminder that anyone, regardless of their circumstances, can achieve great things if they are willing to work hard and never give up on their dreams. The book is still popular today, and it has been adapted into several films and television shows. The characters in the novel are relatable and believable. Richard Hunter is a sympathetic protagonist who readers can root for. The other characters in the story are also well-developed and believable. The plot is exciting and suspenseful. The story is full of twists and turns that keep readers guessing until the very end. The themes of hard work, determination, and compassion are timeless and universal. These themes resonate with readers of all ages.
Download or read book Ragged Dick written by Horatio Alger Jr. and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2021-11-24 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a typical rags-to-riches story about a young boy growing to success through honorable behavior and hard work. The prominent personage is Ragged Dick, a fourteen-year-old bootblack who earns a living by cleaning shoes, and his only joy is smoking and occasional drinking. Yet, his main virtue is prudence. He won't steal at any occasion and dreams to succeed by earnest work. However, good strangers notice his determination to live a better life and help him either by paying an excellent salary to rent a room or offering him a job and clothing. Eventually, Dick quits drinking and smoking and grows into an honorable young gentleman. Hence, he calls himself Richard Hunter, Esq.
Download or read book Ragged Dick written by Horatio Alger and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-07-29 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ragged Dick or, Street Life in New York with the Boot-Blacks by Horatio Alger... Ragged Dick; or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks is a Bildungsroman by Horatio Alger Jr., which was serialized in Student and Schoolmate in 1867 and expanded for publicaton as a full-length novel in May 1868 by the publisher A. K. Loring. It was the first volume in the six-volume Ragged Dick Series and became Alger's best-selling work. The tale follows a poor bootblack's rise to middle-class respectability in 19th-century New York City. It had a favorable reception. Student and Schoolmate reported their readers were delighted with the first installment, and Putnam's Magazine thought boys would love the novel. One modern scholar considers the story a "puerile fantasy" about class assimilation. The plot and theme were repeated in Alger's subsequent novels and became the subject of parodies and satires. Ragged Dick and Alger's Silas Snobden's Office Boy inspired the musical comedy Shine! in 1982.
Download or read book Ragged Dick Or Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks written by Horatio Alger and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A plucky street boy who smokes, gambles, and speaks ungrammatically, Dick is also honest and hardworking. A quintessential novel of adventure, romance, and coming-of-age, it is also an exhilarating tale of one boy's metamorphosis from dirty street urchin to gentleman.-Amazon.com.
Download or read book A Cool Million written by Nathanael West and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Cool Million subtitled "The Dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin," is a satiric Horatio Alger story set in the midst of the Depression and is written in a bracing, mock-heroic style that has lost none of its wit or power.
Download or read book Peter Parley to Penrod written by Jacob Blanck and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bibliography of selected American children's books, 1827-1926.
Download or read book Ragged Dick Or Street Life in New York written by Horatio Alger (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Randy of the River Or the Adventures of a Young Deckhand written by Horatio Alger and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ragged Dick written by Horatio Alger and published by Hansebooks. This book was released on 2020-02-05 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ragged Dick - Street life in New York with the boot-blacks is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1868. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
Download or read book Freedom and Culture written by John Dewey and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ragged Dick written by Horatio Alger (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I ain?t knocked round the city streets all my life for nothin?," proclaims Ragged Dick, the fast-talking boy hero of Horatio Alger?s classic rags-to-riches tale. Dick is a plucky street boy who smokes, gambles, and speaks ungrammatically?but he is also honest and hardworking, striving not for wealth and status, but for a steady job, a decent place to sleep, and respectability. A quintessential boy?s novel of adventure, romance, and coming of age, Ragged Dick brings to life the drama and perils of living among other young outcasts in the crowded streets of lower Manhattan. It is at the same time an exhilarating tale of one boy?s metamorphosis from a dirty street urchin to a handsome, self-respecting gentleman
