The master of bestselling historical novels creates a grand, sweeping drama of New York from the city's founding to the present day. As in his previous bestselling novels, Edward Rutherford illuminates cultural, social, and political shifts through the lives of families of varying backgrounds and wealth.
Telling about the intertwined fates of characters, rich and poor, African-American and white, native and immigrant, Rutherford brings to life the important events that shaped New York and America: the Revolutionary War, the city's emergence as a major commercial and financial center, the excesses of the Gilded Age, the explosion of immigration at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, the trials of the Second World War, the near collapse of New York in the 1970s and its violent revival in the 1990s, attacks on the World Trade Center... Interspersed everywhere are fascinating episodic roles of prominent figures from George Washington and Abraham Lincoln to Babe Ruth.
"New York" is the book that millions of fans of Edward Rutherford have been waiting for. A brilliant combination of romantic episodes with pictures of battles, family dramas and personal triumphs perfectly reflects the search for freedom and prosperity at the center of American history.
