''This book combines striking illustrations with scintillating essays to produce a superb history of the world's first city.'' - ARTHUR SCHLES1NGER JR.
Here is New York-its beauty, complexity, and power; its past and its present-in hundreds of photographs, lithographs, paintings, and prints, and in a fascinating, deeply informed narrative. The companion volume to the acclaimed Emmy-and Dupont Award - winning PBS documentary.
Expanded with a new epilogue on the rise and fall of the World Trade Center.
''A ravishing book ... It can easily fill a winter of reading and browsing.'' - NEW YORK TIMES
RIC BURNS produced with his brother, Ken Burns, the acclaimed PBS series The Civil War, which he wrote with Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns.
JAMES SANDERS, an architect, is also the author of Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Movies.
LISA ADES has produced with Ric Burns several award-winning films for public television, including Coney Island, The Way West, and The Donner Party.