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  • Great Camp Sagamore

    The Vanderbilts' Adirondack Retreat

    Series series Landmarks
    Great Camp Sagamore was built by William West Durant and bought by Alfred Vanderbilt in 1901 to be his family's Adirondack retreat. Vanderbilt and his wife, Margaret, welcomed family and friends, who enjoyed its sprawling grounds and buildings for decades. After Margaret's death, though, the camp changed hands and began to decline until it was rescued by preservationists and then became a National ... Leer más

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  • The Central Park Five

    de Sarah Burns ...
    **A spellbinding account of the real facts of the Central Park jogger case that powerfully reexamines one of New York City's most notorious crimes and its aftermath. •A must-read after watching Ava DuVernay's When They See UsOn April 20th, 1989, two passersby discovered the body of the "Central Park jogger" crumpled in a ravine. She'd been raped and severely beaten. Within days five black and ... Leer más

    $181 MXN

  • Haunted Catskills

    de Lisa LaMonica ...
    Series series Haunted America
    Discover the ghosts who wander these upstate New York mountains—includes photos!Washington Irving called the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York a "spellbound region"—and the ghosts that linger from more than four hundred years of history provide proof of Irving's intuition.In Hudson, Maggie Houghtaling's ghost haunts the Register-Star building, where she was hanged in 1817 for murdering her ... Leer más

    $193 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Tong Wars

    The Untold Story of Vice, Money, and Murder in New York's Chinatown

    A mesmerizing true story of money, murder, gambling, prostitution, and opium in a "wild ramble around Chinatown in its darkest days." (The New Yorker)Nothing had worked. Not threats or negotiations, not shutting down the betting parlors or opium dens, not house-to-house searches or throwing Chinese offenders into prison. Not even executing them. The New York DA was running out of ideas and more ... Leer más

    $181 MXN

  • Red Apple

    Communism and McCarthyism in Cold War New York

    de Phillip Deery ...
    The history of what six men endured during the post-World War II Red Scare in New York City.From the late 1940s through the 1950s, McCarthyism disfigured the American political landscape. Under the altar of anticommunism, domestic Cold War crusaders undermined civil liberties, curtailed equality before the law, and tarnished the ideals of American democracy. In order to preserve freedom, they ... Leer más

    $193 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • St. Marks Is Dead

    The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street

    de Ada Calhoun ...
    **A New York Times Editors' ChoiceA vibrant narrative history of three hallowed Manhattan blocks—the epicenter of American cool.**St. Marks Place in New York City has spawned countless artistic and political movements. Here Frank O’Hara caroused, Emma Goldman plotted, and the Velvet Underground wailed. But every generation of miscreant denizens believes that their era, and no other, marked the ... Leer más

    $223 MXN

  • A Tour on the Prairies

    The productions of Washington Irving are deservedly held in high estimation, not so much, perhaps, for their intrinsic merits as literary compositions, although in this respect they hold no mean position, as for the inimitable tracings of adventurous life which they display through all their gradations and variety, and for the interest they keep alive in the reader, without outraging nature. ... Leer más

    $25 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Victor

    Series series Images of America
    Victor tells the unique story of a historic community in the Finger Lakes region, just south of Rochester. It chronicles Victor's past as a Seneca Indian capital to the coming of Massachusetts settlers in the 18th century through to life as it was in the 20th century. With over 200 photographs, this book shows how people in rural upstate New York lived, played, studied, worked, and worshiped. The ... Leer más

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  • St. Marys

    Series series Images of America
    Located in Elk County atop the Allegheny Mountains, Sancta Marienstadt (St. Marys) was founded in 1842 on the feast day of Mary. Establishing St. Marys as a refuge to preserve their German Catholic roots, the hardy pioneers of the area eventually embraced a multiethnic, progressive cityscape. Early settlers farmed and developed natural resources. When the extractive industries of timber, coal, and ... Leer más

    $207 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Long Island Rail Road Stations

    Series series Images of Rail
    Chartered in 1834 to provide a route between New York City and Boston, the Long Island Rail Road ran from the Brooklyn waterfront through the center of Long Island to Greenport. The railroad served the agricultural market on Long Island until branches and competing lines eventually developed on the north and south shores of the island and several hundred passenger stations were built. After Penn ... Leer más

    $207 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Steel

    The Story of Pittsburgh's Iron & Steel Industry, 1852–1902

    A lively portrait of the "Steel City" and its millionaires and workers during the late nineteenth century.Steel portrays the growth of iron and steel in smoke-filled Pittsburgh during America's industrial age, and what it meant for the people who lived there.This history shares the fast-paced saga of millionaire barons Andrew Carnegie, Ben Franklin Jones, Henry Clay Frick, Henry Phipps, and ... Leer más

    $176 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Heartbeats in the Muck

    The History, Sea Life, and Environment of New York Harbor

    de John Waldman ...
    "Gives the reader a sense of lost New York, of the incredibly rich and biologically diverse ecosystem that once was the lower Hudson River estuary." —Ted Steinberg, author of Gotham UnboundHeartbeats in the Muck traces the incredible arc of New York Harbor's environmental history. Once a pristine estuary bristling with oysters and striped bass and visited by sharks, porpoises, and seals, the ... Leer más

    $193 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus