New York Diaries: 1609 to 2009 - Teresa Carpenter

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
Nol 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