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A review by abeanbg
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 by Edwin G. Burrows, Mike Wallace
5.0
Enormous, yet enormously readable
Enormous, yet enormously readable as well. Books over 1000 pages typically take me a year to read, because I have to break it up into segments. With the aid of the audio book, I took down Gotham in three months. That's a definitive compliment to Burrows and Wallace. Their history of New York is a history of American urban history written across the travails of our Empire City. I'm a Chicagoan, but cannot help but admire their work and the metropolis that Washington Irving dubbed Gotham.
Enormous, yet enormously readable as well. Books over 1000 pages typically take me a year to read, because I have to break it up into segments. With the aid of the audio book, I took down Gotham in three months. That's a definitive compliment to Burrows and Wallace. Their history of New York is a history of American urban history written across the travails of our Empire City. I'm a Chicagoan, but cannot help but admire their work and the metropolis that Washington Irving dubbed Gotham.