New York: An Illustrated History - Hardcover

Ades, Lisa

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679454829 ISBN 13: 9780679454823

Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1999

Synopsis

Five hundred full-color and black-and-white photographs complement this companion volume to the fall 1999 PBS-television series documenting the history of New York City, chronicling more than three hundred years of turbulent growth, dramatic historical events, and colorful personalities. TV tie-in. 100,000 first printing.

About this title

Review:

"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

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0679454829
• ISBN 13: 9780679454823
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 575
• Editor: Burns Ric, Sanders James, Ades Lisa