New York: An Illustrated History - Brossura

Burns, Ric; Sanders, James; Ades, Lisa

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0375710329 ISBN 13: 9780375710322

Casa editrice: Knopf, 2003

Riassunto

More than five hundred full-color and black-and-white photographs complement this expanded companion to the PBS documentary narrating the history of New York City, chronicling more than three hundred years of turbulent growth, dramatic historical events, and colorful personalities, with new material detailing the September 11th tragedy and its aftermath. Simultaneous. 15,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

“This book combines striking illustrations with scintillating essays to produce
a superb history of the world’s first city.”
—Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
“A ravishing book . . . It can easily fill a winter of reading and browsing.”
—New York Times

L'autore:

Ric Burns is best known for his work on the acclaimed PBS series The Civil War, which he produced with Ken Burns and wrote with Ken Burns and Geoffrey C. Ward, and for which he received two Emmy Awards and the Producer of the Year award of the Producers Guild of America. For public television, he has also directed the award-winning documentaries Coney Island, The Donner Party, and The Way West.

James Sanders, an architect, has written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Vanity Fair, and Architectural Record. He has completed design and development projects for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the Parks Council, the Landmarks Preservation Commission, and other civic groups and commercial clients in New York and Los Angeles.

Lisa Ades most recently produced The Way West, a six-hour documentary for national broadcast on PBS. In 1992, she received Peabody and D. W. Griffith awards for producing The Donner Party. Before co-producing Coney Island with Ric Burns in 1990, she was a producer at New York's public television station WNET on the nightly public affairs series The Eleventh Hour.
From the Hardcover edition.

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• Editore: Knopf
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0375710329
• ISBN 13: 9780375710322
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 640