The Kingdom of New York - Knights, Knaves, Billionaires, and Beauties in the City of Big Shots

The Kingdom of New York is rollicking insider's history of contemporary New York, as seen through the lens of the city's most irreverent newspaper, the New York Observer . Handsomely designed with great drawings, cartoons, and other illustrations throughout and filled with the paper's unique attention to politics, status, and wealth, this unique insider's view features essays by Cynthia Ozick, Gay Talese, Woody Allen, and Martin Scorsese, and covers such iconic New York personalities as Bill and Hillary Clinton, Rudy Giuliani, Michael Bloomberg, Graydon Carter, Katie Couric, Tom Wolfe, Norman Mailer, Tina Fey, J. Lo, Seinfeld, Tina Brown, and Anderson Cooper.>

Product details

• Authors: New York Observer, The New York Observer, The New York Observer
• Assisted by: New York Observer (Editor)
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.11.2009
• EAN: 9780061695407
• ISBN: 978-0-06-169540-7
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 203 mm x 254 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: SCIENCE / History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, Geopolitics, Philosophy, military history, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, PHILOSOPHY / Essays, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Propaganda, Middle East, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / State, History of Science, Local History, United States of America, USA, Politics and government, Middle Eastern history, History of the Americas, Political science and theory, Political control and freedoms, US West, US Midwest, US Northeast: Mid-Atlantic States, Regional, state and other local government, HISTORY: United States / 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE: American Government / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE: Propaganda