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by Jules Stewart

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New York is often described as the greatest city in the world. Yet much of the iconic architecture and culture which so defines the city as we know it today from the Empire State Building to the Pastrami sandwich only came into being in the 1930s, in what was perhaps the most significant decade in the city's 400-year history. After the roaring twenties, the catastrophic Wall Street Crash and ensuing Depression seemed to spell disaster for the vibrant city. Yet, in this era, New York underwent an architectural, economic, social and creative renaissance under the leadership of the charismatic mayor Fiorello La Guardia. After seizing power, he declared war on the mafia mobs running vast swathes of the city, attacked political corruption and kick-started the economy through a variety of construction and infrastructure projects. In culture, this was the age of the Harlem Renaissance championed by writers like Langston Hughes, the jazz age with the advent of Tin-Pan Alley, the Cotton Club and immortals such as Duke Ellington making his name in the Big Apple. Weaving these stories together, Jules Stewart tells the story of an iconic city in a time of change."

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  • Title Gotham Rising: New York in the 1930s
  • Author Jules Stewart
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition Hardback
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher I. B. Tauris & Company
  • Publication date 2016
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9781784535292 / 178453529X
  • Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 6.5 x 1.2 in (22.61 x 16.51 x 3.05 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1930's
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
    • Geographic Orientation: New York
    • Locality: New York, N.Y.
  • Category History - U.S.
  • Library of Congress subjects History, Social conditions
  • Dewey Decimal Code 974.710

About the author

Jules Stewart is a journalist, historian and author. He was born in New York and worked there in various guises including a yellow cab driver over the years. His books include Madrid: The History; Albert: A Life; The Kaiser s Mission to Kabul; On Afghanistan s Plains: The Story of Britain s Afghan Wars (all published by I.B.Tauris); Crimson Snow: Britain s First Disaster in Afghanistan; The Savage Border: The Story of the North-West Frontier; Spying for the Raj: The Pundits and the Mapping of the Himalaya and The Khyber Rifles: From the British Raj to Al Qaeda. He lives in London."

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London: I.B. Tauris, 2016. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 261 pgs, with bibliography and index. Illustrated with black and white photographs. The story of New York City at one of its most pivotal times--the decade between the Jazz Age 1920s and the start of World War II. Despite (or sometimes because of) the ravages of the Great Depression, this was the era of the building of iconic skyscrapers like the Chrysler and Empire State Buildings, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia's war on the gambling racketeers, the Harlem Renaissance, the advent of Tin Pan Alley and the Cotton Club. A skillfully woven, lively read.
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