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Paperback. Pub date: 2010 09 Pages: 880 Publisher: Ballantine Books Winner of the David J. Langum Sr .. Prize in American Historical Fiction Named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post and Required Reading by the New York Post Edward Rutherfurd celeates America's greatest city in a rich. engrossing saga. weaving together tales of families rich and poor. native-born and immigrant - a cast of fictional and true characters whose fates rise and fall and rise again with the city's fortunes. From this intimate perspective we see New York's humble beginnings as a tiny Indian fishing village. the arrival of Dutch and itish merchants. the Revolutionary War. the emergence of the city as a great trading and financial center. the convulsions of the Civil War . the excesses of the Gilded Age. the explosion of immigration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centu...
Paperback. Pub date: 2010 09 Pages: 880 Publisher: Ballantine Books Winner of the David J. Langum Sr .. Prize in American Historical Fiction Named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post and Required Reading by the New York Post Edward Rutherfurd celeates America's greatest city in a rich. engrossing saga. weaving together tales of families rich and poor. native-born and immigrant - a cast of fictional and true characters whose fates rise and fall and rise again with the city's fortunes. From this intimate perspective we see New York's humble beginnings as a tiny Indian fishing village. the arrival of Dutch and itish merchants. the Revolutionary War. the emergence of the city as a great trading and financial center. the convulsions of the Civil War . the excesses of the Gilded Age. the explosion of immigration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centu...
Edward Rutherfurd
Francis Edward Wintle, best known under his pen name Edward Rutherfurd, was born in the cathedral city of Salisbury. Educated locally, and at the universities of Cambridge, and Stanford, California,...
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