New York diaries, 1609 to 2009 : 1609 to 2009

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 societies, and private estates to assemble here an almost holographic view of this iconic metropolis. Starting on January 1 and continuing day by day through the year, these journal entries are selected from four centuries of writing-revealing vivid and compelling snapshots of life in the Capital of the World. "Today I arrived by train in New York City . . . and instantly fell in love with it. Silently, inside myself, I yelled: I should have been born here!"-Edward Robb Ellis, May 22, 1947 Includes diary excerpts from Sherwood Anderson ? Albert Camus ? Noël Coward ? Dorothy Day ? John Dos Passos ? Thomas Edison ? Allen Ginsberg ? Keith Haring ? Henry Hudson ? Anne Morrow Lindbergh ? H. L. Mencken ? John Cameron Mitchell ? Julia Rosa Newberry ? Eugene O'Neill ? Edgar Allan Poe ? Theodore Roosevelt ? Elizabeth Cady Stanton ? Alexis de Tocqueville ? Mark Twain ? Gertrude Vanderbilt ? Andy Warhol ? George Washington ? Walt Whitman ? and many others "The most convivial and unorthodox history of New York City one is likely to come across."-The New York Times "A must-read for anyone who has fallen in love with the Big Apple."-New York Journal of Books "An absolute masterpiece."-The Atlantic