Mike Wallace is Distinguished Professor of History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the director of the Gotham Center for New York City History. He is the co-author of Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 , winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History.
Introduction
PART ONE: CONSOLIDATIONS AND CONTRADICTIONS
1. Mergers
2. Acquisitions
3. Consolidation
4. Wall Street
5. Critics and Crisis
6. Who Rules New York?
PART TWO: CONSTRUCTION AND CONNECTION
7. Sky Boom
8. Arteries
9. Ligaments
10. Housing
11. Industrial and Commercial City
PART THREE: CULTURES
12. Acropoli
13. Show Biz
14. Popular Cultures
15. Seeing New York
PART FOUR: CONFRONTATIONS
16. Progressives
17. Repressives
18. Union Town
19. Radicals
20. Bending Gender
21. Black Metropolis
22. Insurgent Art
PART FIVE: WARS
23. Over There?
24. Over Here
Acknowledgments
References
Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Subjects