Review:
"The author brings the time alive with true characters . . . conflict, tension, romance, the upper and lower levels of society and a satisfying finale. Highly recommended." --"The Historical Novels Review", on "City of Glory"
"A whopping saga . . . teeming with bizarre medicine, slave uprisings, executions, thriving brothels, and occasional cannibalistic Indians. . . . A near perfect historical novel." --Mark Rozzo, "Los Angeles Times", on "City of Dreams"
"Clearly, if Swerling had been my history teacher, I would have paid closer attention. . . . These private and national escapades play out in a great swirl of plots and counter plots . . . riotously entertaining." --Ron Charles, "The Washington Post"
"Swerling vividly captures the greed, corruption, violence, and banking failures that accompanied vast new advances in transportation, communication, and lighting during this era." --"Publishers Weekly"
"The title city is New York. The age is gilded. The Civil War is about to end, and the author is tackling love, life, adventure, big business and the dazzling glamour and appalling squalor of the city that never sleeps. Even way back in the 1860s." --Anne Bendheim, "Asbury Park Press" (New Jersey)
"The history of New York City, as told through the fiction of Beverly Swerling, just keeps getting better." --Terry Mapes, "Mansfield News Journal" (Ohio)
"Run, do not walk, to purchase a copy of Beverly Swerling's compulsively readable "City of Promise"." --Mark Peikert, "New York Press"
"[Swerling] nimbly weaves fact-based history and fast-paced fiction into a vivid tableau of 1870s Manhattan" --Beth Johnson, "Entertainment Weekly"
Swerling nimbly weaves fact-based history and fast-paced fiction into a vivid tableau of 1870s Manhattan. "Entertainment Weekly""
Riotously entertaining . . . Clearly, if Swerling had been my history teacher, I would have paid closer attention. Ron Charles, "The Washington Post""
About the Author:
Beverly Swerling is a writer, consultant, and amateur historian. She lives in New York City with her husband.
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