The King Of Fifth Avenue
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The King Of Fifth Avenue
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Author : David Black
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
The King Of Fifth Avenue written by David Black and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Lincoln And The Jews
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Author : Jonathan D. Sarna
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2015-03-17
Lincoln And The Jews written by Jonathan D. Sarna and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-17 with History categories.
One hundred and fifty years after Abraham Lincoln's death, the full story of his extraordinary relationship with Jews is told here for the first time. Lincoln and the Jews: A History provides readers both with a captivating narrative of his interactions with Jews, and with the opportunity to immerse themselves in rare manuscripts and images, many from the Shapell Lincoln Collection, that show Lincoln in a way he has never been seen before. Lincoln's lifetime coincided with the emergence of Jews on the national scene in the United States. When he was born, in 1809, scarcely 3,000 Jews lived in the entire country. By the time of his assassination in 1865, large-scale immigration, principally from central Europe, had brought that number up to more than 150,000. Many Americans, including members of Lincoln's cabinet and many of his top generals during the Civil War, were alarmed by this development and treated Jews as second-class citizens and religious outsiders. Lincoln, this book shows, exhibited precisely the opposite tendency. He also expressed a uniquely deep knowledge of the Old Testament, employing its language and concepts in some of his most important writings. He befriended Jews from a young age, promoted Jewish equality, appointed numerous Jews to public office, had Jewish advisors and supporters starting already from the early 1850s, as well as later during his two presidential campaigns, and in response to Jewish sensitivities, even changed the way he thought and spoke about America. Through his actions and his rhetoric—replacing "Christian nation," for example, with "this nation under God"—he embraced Jews as insiders. In this groundbreaking work, the product of meticulous research, historian Jonathan D. Sarna and collector Benjamin Shapell reveal how Lincoln's remarkable relationship with American Jews impacted both his path to the presidency and his policy decisions as president. The volume uncovers a new and previously unknown feature of Abraham Lincoln's life, one that broadened him, and, as a result, broadened America.
Park Avenue
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Author : Christopher Smith
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2013-04-01
Park Avenue written by Christopher Smith and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-01 with Fiction categories.
*STEPHEN KING on Christopher Smith: "Put me down as an enthusiastic Christopher Smith fan. Smith is a cultural genius." Sometimes, even after death, revenge carries on. Targets remain targets. People will die. From the grave, one man's will delivers the directive. Kill George Redman. Kill Leana Redman. Kill every Redman. Finish the job, crush them all, do it swiftly, rob them of their hopes, steal away their dreams. In Park Avenue, the sixth book in the hugely popular Fifth Avenue series (Fifth Avenue, Running of the Bulls, From Manhattan with Love, From Manhattan with Revenge, A Rush to Violence), the heat boils over as characters from each book collide in a single collective nightmare. For the Redmans, the problem is that this one man, long since deceased, is not alone in his quest to see them dead. Others are conspiring against the Redmans, which leads to a punishing series of events as they fight for their lives. Park Avenue, which skewers New York society to its core, is the most complicated and satisfying thriller yet by #1 international best-selling novelist, Christopher Smith. THE FIFTH AVENUE SERIES in order: Fifth Avenue Running of the Bulls From Manhattan with Love From Manhattan with Revenge A Rush to Violence Park Avenue
The Phantom Of Fifth Avenue
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Author : Meryl Gordon
language : en
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Release Date : 2014-05-27
The Phantom Of Fifth Avenue written by Meryl Gordon and has been published by Grand Central Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-27 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
From New York Times bestselling author Meryl Gordon, the definitive biography of Huguette Clark, who went from being one of the wealthiest and most famous Jazz Age socialites to spending the last twenty years of her life hiding out in hospitals. Born in 1906, Huguette Clark grew up in her family's 121-room Beaux Arts mansion in New York and was one of the leading celebrities of her day. Her father William Andrews Clark, was a copper magnate, the second richest man in America, and not above bribing his way into the Senate. Huguette attended the coronation of King George V. And at twenty-two with a personal fortune of $50 million to her name, she married a Princeton man and childhood friend William MacDonald Gower. Two-years later the couple divorced. After a series of failed romances, Huguette began to withdraw from society--first living with her mother in a kind of Grey Gardens isolation then as a modern-day Miss Havisham, spending her days in a vast apartment overlooking Central Park, eating crackers and watching The Flintstones with only servants for company. All her money and all her real estate could not protect her in her later life from being manipulated by shady hangers-on and hospitals that were only too happy to admit (and bill) a healthy woman. But what happened to Huguette that turned a vivacious, young socialite into a recluse? And what was her life like inside that gilded, copper cage?
The Lions Of Fifth Avenue
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Author : Fiona Davis
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2020-08-04
The Lions Of Fifth Avenue written by Fiona Davis and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-04 with Fiction categories.
A Good Morning America Book Club Pick and a New York Times bestseller! “A page-turner for booklovers everywhere! . . . A story of family ties, their lost dreams, and the redemption that comes from discovering truth.”—Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of The Shoemaker's Wife In New York Times bestselling author Fiona Davis's latest historical novel, a series of book thefts roils the iconic New York Public Library, leaving two generations of strong-willed women to pick up the pieces. It's 1913, and on the surface, Laura Lyons couldn't ask for more out of life—her husband is the superintendent of the New York Public Library, allowing their family to live in an apartment within the grand building, and they are blessed with two children. But headstrong, passionate Laura wants more, and when she takes a leap of faith and applies to the Columbia Journalism School, her world is cracked wide open. As her studies take her all over the city, she is drawn to Greenwich Village's new bohemia, where she discovers the Heterodoxy Club—a radical, all-female group in which women are encouraged to loudly share their opinions on suffrage, birth control, and women's rights. Soon, Laura finds herself questioning her traditional role as wife and mother. And when valuable books are stolen back at the library, threatening the home and institution she loves, she's forced to confront her shifting priorities head on . . . and may just lose everything in the process. Eighty years later, in 1993, Sadie Donovan struggles with the legacy of her grandmother, the famous essayist Laura Lyons, especially after she's wrangled her dream job as a curator at the New York Public Library. But the job quickly becomes a nightmare when rare manuscripts, notes, and books for the exhibit Sadie's running begin disappearing from the library's famous Berg Collection. Determined to save both the exhibit and her career, the typically risk-averse Sadie teams up with a private security expert to uncover the culprit. However, things unexpectedly become personal when the investigation leads Sadie to some unwelcome truths about her own family heritage—truths that shed new light on the biggest tragedy in the library's history.
Fifth Avenue
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Author : Arthur Bartlett Maurice
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2024-02
Fifth Avenue written by Arthur Bartlett Maurice and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02 with Fiction categories.
By delving into the complex fabric of Fifth Avenue in New York, the author deftly reveals historical facets, presenting the avenue as a dynamic representation of the development of the city. The narrative deftly blends the history of this architectural icon, from its modest beginnings during the Knickerbocker era to its current reputation as a symbol of richness and sophistication, with the majesty of its architectural icons and the stories of those who trod its sidewalks. Literary history comes to life as the reader turns the pages, with the buildings lining the famous road resonating with the ghosts of famous authors and intellectuals. The narrative, which chronicles the creative and inspirational events that grew within the city's cultural core, reads like a novel. The book's bohemian trails provide a vivid image of the areas that have been home to rebels, artists, and free spirits. Every chapter opens up like a window into a different time period, allowing readers to see the conflicts and alliances that molded the personality of the avenue. The end product is an engrossing novel that is timeless, drawing readers into the rich tapestry of New York's social and cultural past.
The King Of Babylon
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Author : Martin Boltax
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2010-12-15
The King Of Babylon written by Martin Boltax and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-15 with Fiction categories.
John Karras is sitting in his New York apartment on a steamy summer day in 1983 when he receives a special delivery letter summoning him to a law office. There he is advised that he is the sole heir to the estate of a recently deceased woman named Helen Dukas, someone totally unknown to him. Upon the reading of the will, he is handed a personal letter from the woman that explains that she was for many years the close personal assistant of Albert Einstein. The letter reveals that he, John Karras, is the son of the great scientist. Among Helens personal effects he discovers a diary written by Einstein. In the pages of the diary he learns the secret of Einsteins spiritual theory of relativity, called the Unified Grace Theory, which is the means for accessing the ultimate source of power. Misapplied, this power can lead to monumental tragedy, as we learn when John Karras attempts to use it.
Fifth Avenue
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Author : Kate Simon
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Release Date : 1978
Fifth Avenue written by Kate Simon and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with History categories.
Few streets in the world hold the allure of Fifth Avenue. And through the years, from its opening in 1826, through its development as the locus of New York society, to its present status as the hub of luxury commerce in New York - it has been the scene of, and witness to, some of the most extraordinary people and events in our nation's history. Now in Fifth Avenue: A Very Social History, we have a biography of this great boulevard, written by Kate Simon, author of New York: Places and Pleasures, one of a series of the most distinguished travel books of our time. Her brisk, engaging and compelling narrative brings to life worlds now long gone but still palpable today on America's greatest street: the World of Money of the Vanderbilts and Whitneys and Astor, the highest society of the original Four Hundred, and their extravagant balls and parties in mammoth mansions on the Avenue; the World of Art and the great Duveen, dealer and cultural arbiter, of Mabel Dodge Luhan, holding forth in her brownstone at the foot of the Avenue, hostess to burgeoning circles of Greenwich Village intelligentsia in the 1910s, the palaces of Frick and Carnegie, and the Guggenheim Museum itself; the World of Fashion and the merchants who owned Bonwit's and Bergdorf's, Saks' and Tiffany's, catering to the tastes, whims and extravagant spending of Fifth Avenue's swells and ladies; the World of the outsiders in Harlem along the Avenue's uppermost reaches, or in the pestilential swamp that was to become Central Park; and worlds indefinable - of Mme. Restell, the society abortionist; of the dazzling Frederick Law Olmsted, the architect of Central Park; of th raging mobs of the Civil War draft riots; of the different sort of money that came along after World War II, destroying much of the Avenue's richest heritage, and replacing it with grim facades of anonymous office towers. Kate Simon has painted a dazzling panorama of a century and a half - a tableau vivant illuminated and played out on the pavements of one of the most prestigious avenues in the world.
One Fifth Avenue
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Author : Candace Bushnell
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2013-12-12
One Fifth Avenue written by Candace Bushnell and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-12 with Fiction categories.
One Fifth Avenue, the Art Deco beauty towering over Manhattan's hippest neighbourhood, is a one-of-a-kind address, the sort of building you have to earn your way into - one way or another. For the women in Candace Bushnell's stellar new novel, One Fifth Avenue is at the heart of the lives they've carefully established, or hope to establish. There is Schiffer Diamond, a forty-something actress busily proving that women of style are truly ageless. There is spoiled, self-assured Lola, who is determined to launch herself into society and the arms of the right man by clawing a way into the building. Annalisa is the wife of a hedge fund manager and reluctant socialite, while bitter Mindy is married to an under-published writer and has been the family breadwinner for too long. And then there is Enid, the glamorous grande dame and gossip columnist, who has lived at One Fifth Avenue for decades, and sees everything there is to see from her penthouse view . . .
One Fifth Avenue
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Author : Candace Bushnell
language : en
Publisher: Hachette Books
Release Date : 2008-09-22
One Fifth Avenue written by Candace Bushnell and has been published by Hachette Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-22 with Fiction categories.
From one of the most consistently astute and engaging social commentators of our day comes another look at the tough and tender women of New York City--this time, through the lens of where they live. One Fifth Avenue, the Art Deco beauty towering over one of Manhattan's oldest and most historically hip neighborhoods, is a one-of-a-kind address, the sort of building you have to earn your way into--one way or another. For the women in Candace Bushnell's new novel, One Fifth Avenue, this edifice is essential to the lives they've carefully established--or hope to establish. From the hedge fund king's wife to the aging gossip columnist to the free-spirited actress (a recent refugee from L.A.), each person's game plan for a rich life comes together under the soaring roof of this landmark building. Acutely observed and mercilessly witty, One Fifth Avenue is a modern-day story of old and new money, that same combustible mix that Edith Wharton mastered in her novels about New York's Gilded Age and F. Scott Fitzgerald illuminated in his Jazz Age tales. Many decades later, Bushnell's New Yorkers suffer the same passions as those fictional Manhattanites from eras past: They thirst for power, for social prominence, and for marriages that are successful--at least to the public eye. But Bushnell is an original, and One Fifth Avenue is so fresh that it reads as if sexual politics, real estate theft, and fortunes lost in a day have never happened before. From Sex and the City through four successive novels, Bushnell has revealed a gift for tapping into the zeitgeist of any New York minute and, as one critic put it, staying uncannily "just the slightest bit ahead of the curve." And with each book, she has deepened her range, but with a light touch that makes her complex literary accomplishments look easy. Her stories progress so nimbly and ring so true that it can seem as if anyone might write them--when, in fact, no one writes novels quite like Candace Bushnell. Fortunately for us, with One Fifth Avenue, she has done it again.