New York Diaries
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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 Teresa Carpenter, a lifelong diary enthusiast, scoured the archives of libraries, historical…
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1 author picked New York Diaries as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
The author had a great idea: to give us a history of New York City by offering us pages of the diaries of famous people and obscure figures from the early 1600s up through the first decade of the 21st century.
She goes day by day through a year – with multiple entries from different years and different diaries for each of those days.
We get to see comments on the major political and historical events that shook not just New York but the country and the world, from perspectives that differ drastically from today’s. She was masterful in choosing…
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