The City's End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York's Destruction by Max Page

The City's End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York's Destruction

Max Page

280 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
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From nineteenth-century paintings of fires raging through New York City to scenes of Manhattan engulfed by a gigantic wave in the 1998 movie Deep Impact, images of the city’s end have been prolific and diverse. Why have Americans repeatedly imagin...

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