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The Great Fire of 1835 nearly leveled Manhattan-consuming some 700 buildings-yet also created the ashes from which the city was reborn.
Manhattan Phoenix explores the emergence of modern New York after 1835 and in the years up to and through the Civil War, as it evolved from a chaotic jumble of competing interests and rampant disorganization into to a metropolis of world-class proportions.
List of contents
- I. Prologue
- II. Fire
- III. Ash
- IV. Land
- V. Trade
- VI. Marble
- VII. Water
- VIII. Grime
- IX. Firemen
- X. People
- XI. Retreat
- XII. Rebirth
About the author
Daniel S. Levy is a senior writer for Life Books, which is part of Dotdash Meredith Premium Publishing. He has written on such topics as World War I, Anne Frank, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the Civil War, Robert F. Kennedy and the Women of the Bible. Prior to that he was a senior reporter at Time magazine where he covered architecture and classical music, and a reporter at People magazine, where he wrote about social issues and crime. In 1997 Levy wrote Two-Gun Cohen, a biography of Morris Cohen, an English adventurer who became a general in the Chinese army, fought the Japanese during World War II and following the war was one of the few people who was able to travel between Communist China and Taiwan.
Summary
The Great Fire of 1835 nearly leveled Manhattan-consuming some 700 buildings-yet also created the ashes from which the city was reborn. Manhattan Phoenix explores the emergence of modern New York after 1835 and in the years up to and through the Civil War, as it evolved from a chaotic jumble of competing interests and rampant disorganization into to a metropolis of world-class proportions.
