Children of the City: At Work and at Play by Nasaw, David

Children of the City: At Work and at Play (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780345802972)

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Format: Paperback
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Children of the City: At Work and at Play by Nasaw, David

Children of the City: At Work and at Play

$16.95
Children of the City: At Work and at Play by Nasaw, David

Children of the City: At Work and at Play

$16.95
Format: Paperback
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The turn of the twentieth century was a time of explosive growth for American cities, a time of nascent hopes and apparently limitless possibilities. In Children of the City, David Nasaw re-creates this period in our social history from the vantage point of the children who grew up then. Drawing on hundreds of memoirs, autobiographies, oral histories and unpublished--and until now unexamined--primary source materials from cities across the country, he provides us with a warm and eloquent portrait of these children, their families, their daily lives, their fears, and their dreams.

Illustrated with 68 photographs from the period, many never before published, Children of the City offers a vibrant portrait of a time when our cities and our grandparents were young.

Author: David Nasaw
ISBN-10: 0345802977
ISBN-13: 9780345802972
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 09/18/2012
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.24w x 0.56d
By David Nasaw
By David Nasaw
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David Nasaw is the author of five book and is the Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Professor of History of American History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His biography of Andrew Carnegie was a finalist for the Pulitizer Prize and his biography of William Randolph Hearst, The Chief, won the Bancroft Prize and the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize. He has served as a historical consultant for several television documentaries. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, The New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, and other periodicals. He resides in New York City.

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