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Subtitle: an oral history of Manhattan from the 1890s to World War II
By: Jeff Kisseloff.
Edition: Johns Hopkins paperbacks ed.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Baltimore, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 622
Subjects: Oral history; Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- Anecdotes; Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs. -- Anecdotes; New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951 -- Anecdotes; New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- Anecdotes; Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Biography -- Anecdotes; New York (N.Y.) -- Biography -- Anecdotes
Genres: Anecdotes.; Biography
Description: "Jeff Kisseloff brings together 137 New Yorkers who witnessed daily life in Manhattan from the 1890s to World War II. Dividing the city into ten neighborhoods and devoting a chapter and about a dozen voices to each, Kisseloff offers a brief historical introduction, then lets the eyewitnesses speak for themselves. We hear a survivor's account of the harrowing Triangle Shirtwaist fire as well as tales of the sweatshops, the settlement houses, and the immigrants from around the world who poured into the Lower East Side at the turn of the century. There are vignettes of John Reed, Louise Bryant, Eugene O'Neill, and Edna St. Vincent Millay.

We read of the bloody beginnings of the seamen's union and, down the street from the docks, visit with Thomas Wolfe and Edgar Lee Masters in the Hotel Chelsea. In Harlem, the Savoy and the Cotton Club were in their heyday, as were Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, and Adam Clayton Powell. Throughout the book, Kisseloff engages us in a unique conversation between an all-but-bygone time and our own."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [601]-605) and index.
Originally published: San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1989.